The Sino-Soviet Alliance

“Jersild has found highly revealing documents from Chinese archives and rounded out his account of intra-bloc exchange by incorporating the Chinese perspective. The result is a truly international history of the socialist bloc advising relationship in China." — Qiang Zhai, Auburn University at Montgomery

“Jersild takes a bottom-up approach to the Sino-Soviet alliance. By recounting the low politics of economic advisers and cultural administrators, he brings a whole new perspective to the relationship, provides a real texture to it, so that we know, for once, what happened in the 1950s beyond the facade of top-leader discussions. He also bridges the gap between social and diplomatic history to show how attitudes of advisers and practitioners at the low level were undermining this alliance even before visible cracks appeared at the political level. A superb treatment of the subject.” — Sergey Radchenko, reader in international politics, Aberystwyth University

“A welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on Sino-Soviet relations in the 1950s.” — American Historical Review

“Such a pleasure to read that even those unfamiliar with this period of history will find it hard to put down. Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” — CHOICE

“[An] extensively-researched and highly-revealing volume.” — H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews

“An important and long overdue contribution to the literature. . . . Anyone interested in Russia, China, or Cold War history would certainly enjoy Jersild’s book and learn a great deal from it.” — Army History

“A valuable contribution to understanding how the Sino-Soviet alliance operated and eventually ended. . . . Will be of interest to scholars and advanced graduate students.” — The Historian