USSR FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS CHINA (1945-50) IN THE WORKS OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the USSR's policy in China in the 40-50s of the twentieth century in the works of a number of American historians of the second half of the twentieth century, including prominent Sovietologist, long-term director of the Russian Research Center of Harvard University A.Ulam. The author compares various points of view expressed by American historians on the motives that guided Moscow in its policy towards the Chinese Communists and in general in relation to the conflict that took place in China. Several main phases of Soviet-Chinese relations during this period are defined in the interpretation of American historiography - from the policy of "limited contacts" between the USSR and the Chinese Communists in the late 1930s and early 1940s to the conclusion of the Soviet-Chinese treaty of 1950 and its impact on relations between the two countries.