ABSTRACT

This book provides a systematic history of Sino-Russian relations, a history which is invaluable in forming an understanding of relations between the two nations today. Becoming neighbours in the seventeenth century, their changing relations in peace and war, in isolation, cooperation and confrontation have steadily assumed a greater importance in world politics and become increasingly important to the stability of international relations.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

Two vastly different histories

China and Russia to the Mongol Conquests of the Thirteenth Century

chapter 2|7 pages

1200–1618

A Measure of Convergence — The Mongols, Ming China and Muscovy

chapter 3|14 pages

1618–1689

China Contains the Muscovite Russians

chapter 4|8 pages

1689–1725

The Impact of Peter the Great

chapter 5|12 pages

1725–1792

A Chilly Balance of Power

chapter 6|9 pages

1792–1854

The Swing of the Pendulum in Russia's Favour

chapter 7|7 pages

1854–1860

The Great Russian Advance in East Asia

chapter 8|12 pages

1860–1917

Tsarist Russian Preponderance and Decline

chapter 9|16 pages

1917–1943

Soviet Russia and Divided China

chapter 10|9 pages

1943–1950

Origins of the Sino-Soviet Alliance

chapter 11|15 pages

1950–1963

The Alliance, Its Demise and Burial

chapter 12|11 pages

1963–1969

Chinese Revolutionary Fervour and Soviet Containment

chapter 13|13 pages

1969–1978

World-Wide Rivalry During the Sino-American and Soviet-American Detentes

chapter 14|15 pages

Since 1978

Towards New Balances of Power