2. Rocky from the beginning -Stalin felt Mao’s interpretation of Marxism, using peasants as the basis for the revolution, was not true because it wasn’t lead by workers -Stalin feared Mao as a rival for power & didn’t want the Cold War to spread to Asia -Stalin didn’t give much support to the CCP during the civil war, only warmed up after their victory -Soviets treated Chinese as second-rate, encouraged Mao to send troops into Korea, but forced him to pay for all weapons the soviets supplied

3. Mao & Khrushchev 1956-64 “K” gave his “secret speech” denouncing Stalin and his “Cult of Personality” Mao viewed K’s crushing of Hungarian Uprising as their failure to contain reactionaries Mao viewed K’s ideas of “Peaceful Coexistence” as against Marxism, since it implied revolution can be achieved without violence Mao felt détente was an attempt to isolate China Chinese rep. Deng Xiaoping out-argued Russian rep. over ideology = embarrassment to Russia

4. Khrushchev visits Beijing 1958 Was an attempt to ease the growing tension Mao made his visit uncomfortable, hotel had no air conditioning and infested with flies Mao had a round of talks at his swimming pool, K had to wear shorts too small and float on a rubber ring since he couldn’t swim Talks were unproductive Deng states: Soviets betrayed international communist movement Soviets saw themselves as only true Marxist-Leninists Soviets sent spies posing as technical advisors to China

5. Taiwan 1958 Mao wanted reunification with Taiwan, and was furious over US support for the Nationalists there PRC built up troop maneuvers in the region giving impression PRC was preparing for an attack, w/out discussing it with the Soviets US responds by preparing for war K accuses Mao of pursuing international revolution at any cost, of being fanatical Soviets withdraw economic advisors and cancel commercial contracts with PRC

6. Soviets denounce GLF Soviets say the GLF was faulty in design and erroneous in practice Soviet gov. said it was unorthodox and reveled in Mao’s failure, Mao wanted to strike back 1961 Soviets withdrew aid to Albania for Stalinist doctrines and backwards ways Mao viewed it as an attack on China as well and offered to replace Soviet money, this was the final severance of diplomatic relationships K calls Mao the “Asian Hitler” Mao calls K a “Redundant old boot”

7. Sino-Indian war 1962 China had issues with the border that was imposed by the British, Mao wanted to renegotiate, yet India saw no reason to October 1962 war breaks out between PLA and Indian military. India allowed US to fly U-2 planes over the area and we photograph China’s 1 st A- Bomb test Soviets were officially neutral, yet they gave India MIG fighters…Mao is angry the soviets had aided the enemy

8. Cuban Missile Crisis Mao was openly critical of how Khrushchev handled the crisis Mao attacked him for the placement of the DETECTABLE missiles, his backing down to the Americans and the negative impact it will have on the struggle against US imperialism He called Khrushchev a coward

9. Cultural Revolution Khrushchev left office in 1964, Soviet leadership still isolates PRC Soviets denounce Cultural Revolution as total fanaticism and criticized Mao for creating anarchy Soviets attacked PRC for: Trading with APARTHEID South African regime Getting nuclear help from WEST Germany Sending supplies to US forces in Vietnam

10. Nuclear Weapons Issue 1957 appeared USSR gained superiority of USA with launching of Sputnik Mao felt USSR should use to push the US to war, Khrushchev saw it as a way to push “Peaceful Coexistence” Test-Ban treaty of 1963 stopped atmospheric testing of atomic weapons. Mao irritated at Soviets continued compliance with imperialist powers Khrushchev accuses Mao of wanting to see USA & USSR to destroy each other leaving PRC as top dog

11. Argument over Nuclear Technology: CHINA: If you’re our friend, help us develop our own program… SOVIETS: since we are your friend, you don’t need your own program we’ll look after you China ends up developing their own nuclear weapons in 1964, showing they didn’t need the Soviets and were now an international power.