ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines that the Soviet Union and Communist China is one of the most striking events in the international politics of the twentieth century. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and People's Republic of China were, after all, both states under Communist rule, whose leaderships advocated one and the same Marxist-Leninist ideology. The Soviet leaders based their claim on the fact that the USSR was the "home of the October revolution", that it was the first and most powerful socialist state, and that the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the "Party of Lenin". The Chinese leadership showed thereby that it feared that the fate of the world would now be determined primarily by the United States, which had survived as the only superpower.
