Two Suns in the Heavens

Sergey Radchenko is a Fellow in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

"A short summary cannot do justice to this book's richness. Radchenko's mastery of Soviet archives is outstanding . . . [A] very fine monograph." - Xiaojia Hou (China Review International) "Reading this interesting and well-balanced history of five crucial years in Sino-Soviet diplomacy is like watching a slow-motion train wreck, as the reader becomes an eyewitness to relations declining from bad to worse between the two socialists superpowers." - Bruce A. Elleman, The Russian Review. "I this richly, eloquently written book, Radchenko provides an in-depth, incisive assessment of the turbulent relationship between Beijing and Moscow against a broad international backdrop from 1962 to 1976...His study in large measures transcends conventional interpretations and enriches the current scholarship on Sino-Soviet relations." - G. Zheng (Choice.) "[Two Suns in the Heavens] succeeds in using a broad range of new materials to produce an unusually nuanced and insightful analysis of Soviet management of the dispute, as well as a provocative new of Mao's approach to it." - Steven M. Goldstein (China Prespectives.) "This book is an excellent addition to the burgeoning literature on the international relations of the communist bloc during the Cold War." - Nicholas Khoo (International Affairs) "... the book is a real contribution to our understanding of the period and its main actors." - The China Journal "Making excellent use of new archival materials, Sergey Radchenko illuminates a topic that we have known only in general outlines. Two Suns in the Heavens gives us a very fine understanding of the texture of the Sino-Soviet relationship, and of its twists and turns." - David Holloway (tanford University) "Two Suns in the Heavens represents a major contribution to the study of Sino-Soviet relations as well as the study of Cold War international history." - Chen Jian (Cornell University)