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E207 - The Sino-Soviet Split, Pt. 2 w/ Jeremy Friedman
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Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode and part one of this discussion for some background!
Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard, to talk about the Sino-Soviet Split. The conversation picks up in the 1960s with the Soviets’ push for peaceful coexistence vs the PRC and developing world’s push for anti-imperialist armed struggle, how the Cultural Revolution affects the calculation, Mao’s growing distrust of the USSR, the split itself, ideological vanguardism vs elitism, imperialism without capitalism, whether a split was inevitable, and more.
Grab a copy of Jeremy’s book Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World!
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732 episodes
Manage episode 479719068 series 2950579
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Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode and part one of this discussion for some background!
Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard, to talk about the Sino-Soviet Split. The conversation picks up in the 1960s with the Soviets’ push for peaceful coexistence vs the PRC and developing world’s push for anti-imperialist armed struggle, how the Cultural Revolution affects the calculation, Mao’s growing distrust of the USSR, the split itself, ideological vanguardism vs elitism, imperialism without capitalism, whether a split was inevitable, and more.
Grab a copy of Jeremy’s book Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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