Mao's Road and Sino-Soviet Relations: A View from Washington, 1953

Abstract

A comparative study of Soviet and Chinese press propaganda on the closely related problems of Mao Tse-tung's position as a Communist theoretician and the relevance of the Chinese revolution for revolutions in other colonial and semi-colonial countries may add to a further understanding of the controversial field of Sino-Soviet relations and serve as a background against which pertinent aspects of current propaganda might be better understood. Differences in viewpoint on these questions may represent latent, but nonetheless vital, tensions in the relations between Soviet and Chinese Communist leaders. In fact, a deterioration in Sino-Soviet relations, for whatever cause, may quite probably be signalized first in divergent assertions regarding theoretical matters.