Sino-Soviet split
What Sino-Soviet split means in History A-Level, as defined for AQA, Pearson Edexcel.
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The division between China and the Soviet Union in which Mao's fears of the Soviet Union intensified between 1961 and 1968.
The split with China provoked by Khrushchev's policies, which Mao Zedong viewed as revisionist.
Topics that use Sino-Soviet split
- 2T The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire, 1953–2000 (A-level only) – De-Stalinisation, 1953–1964 (AQA A-Level)
- Paper 3, Option 38.2: The making of modern China, 1860–1997 - 4 The Sino- Soviet split, 1958–69 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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