Annotated bibliography

1. Bruce A. Elleman, Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet

Diplomatic Relations, 1917-1927 (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997), iii,
http://www.questiaschool.com/read/99129783/diplomacy-and-deception-the-
secret-history-of-sino-soviet.
The author, Bruce A. Elleman, is William V. Pratt Professor of International History in the Maritime
History Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College, with twenty-two
publications. He is a professional historian .

This is a secondary source where the author, Bruce A. Elleman, draws on newly available documents
from archives in China, Taiwan, Russia, and Japan. This study examines secret agreements signed by
Moscow and the Peking government in 1924 and confirmed by a Soviet-Japanese convention in 1925.
These agreements essentially allowed the Bolsheviks to reclaim most of tsarist Russia's concessions and
privileges in China, including not only Imperial properties but also Outer Mongolia, the Chinese Eastern
Railway, the Boxer Indemnity, and the right of extraterritoriality. This book was published in December
31st 1997, shortly after the opening of the Soviet archive. Also, the book includes secret diplomatics
between China and the USSR

2. Leng, Shao-Chuan. Legal Aspects of the Sino-Soviet Dispute. Asian Survey, vol. 12, no.
6, 1972, pp. 493509., www.jstor.org/stable/2643046.

This is an article published in an Asian Survey, the only bimonthly academic journal of
contemporary Asian affairs published in the US. Asian Survey provides in-depth analysis on
contemporary Asia and international affairs.

However, this article is written before the opening of Soviet archive s in 1991 and may not have
had access to the full range of sources.
Dr. Leng is deemed an authority on Chinese affairs but this article is written during the Sino-
Soviet split and so has no benefit from the hindsight.
3. Herbert J. Ellison, ed., The Sino-Soviet Conflict: A Global Perspective (Seattle,
WA: University of Washington Press, 1982),
http://www.questiaschool.com/read/101611156/the-sino-soviet-conflict-a-global-
perspective.
The purpose of this volume is to explore the complexities of the Sino-Soviet conflict, and its
international repercussions, within the rapidly changing international scene of the 1970s, and to project
the likely trends of the 1980s.

This book is written during the Sino-Soviet Split and thus has no benefit of hindsight. Dr. Herbert J.
Ellison devoted thirty years of distinguished service to the University of Washington, and for nearly a
half-century was one of the leading figures in the field of Soviet and post-Soviet studies before his
retirement in June 2002. However, this article is written before the opening of Soviet archives in 1991 and
may not have had access to the full range of sources.
 4. Austin Jersild, The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History (Chapel Hill, NC: University of
North Carolina Press, 2014), vii, http://www.questiaschool.com/read/125112677/the-sino-
soviet-alliance-an-international-history.

In 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance,
and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation between the Soviet bloc and the
PRC. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the
alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration
with the Soviets.

Jersild zeros in on the ground-level experiences of the socialist bloc advisers in China, who were
involved in everything from the development of university curricula, the exploration for oil, and railway
construction to piano lessons. Their goal was to reproduce a Chinese administrative elite in their own
image that could serve as a valuable ally in the Soviet bloc's struggle against the United States.
Interestingly, the USSR's allies in Central Europe were as frustrated by the "great power chauvinism" of
the Soviet Union as was China. By exposing this aspect of the story, Jersild shows how the alliance, and
finally the split, had a true international dimension.

Also, this book has the benefit of hindsight as it is written long after the Sino-Soviet split.