ABSTRACT
From the beginning the Cultural Revolution was noticeably anti-Soviet in tone. Because it was directed against domestic "revisionists," it was logical, in view of ten years of steady deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations, to attack also the foreign "revisionists" who were thought to have inspired them. In foreign policy, the Chinese opposed the world mission assumed by the Soviet Union, the Soviet vocation in Asia, and the Russian claim to lead the socialist camp. Within the socialist world, the doctrine of "limited sovereignty" of states, the "plundering" of their resources under the guise of economic integration, and the role of Comecon were attacked more often than anything else. The Albanians were reliable ideological allies of the Chinese, and echoes of the Cultural Revolution were heard in Albania. Although the Chinese said they were prepared to base negotiations on the existing treaties, they probably wanted to make the Russians admit that the treaties concerning the present Sino-Russian frontiers were "unequal treaties.".
