Mending Fences

Elizabeth Wishnick is associate professor of political science at Montclair State University and adjunct associate research scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsMapsIntroductionPart I. Brezhnev’s Containment PolicyThe Soviet Union’s China StrategyThe Sino-Soviet Conflict in PerspectivePart II. The Road to BeijingLeadership Change in the USSR and Sino-Soviet RelationsPressures for Continuity and Change in Soviet China Policy in the Early 1980sFrom Rapprochment to NormalizationThe Gorbachev Revolution and China PolicyPart III. Toward Sino-Russian PartnershipSino-Russian Relations in the Yeltsin EraMoscow and Border Regions Debate Russia’s China PolicyConclusionsNotesWorks CitedIndex

"[Wishnick] brings to this important subject a mastery of Russian and Chinese sources, an impressive command of the relevant scholarship, much new material from Soviet state and party archives, and extensive interviews with Russian policy makers and with leading Russian specialists on China."