The Sino-Soviet split: Borkenau's predictive analysis of 1952

In: The China quarterly: an international journal for the study of China, Heft 94, S. 342-361

Abstract

J. Tashjean introduces an analysis of Sino-Soviet relations by Franz Borkenau (1900-57). Borkenau did this analysis at the request of the U.S. Department of State in 1952. According to him a profound conflict between the communist regimes of the USSR and China is in the long run as certain as anything predictable in politics. Social divergencies of the two regimes. Borkenau thinks that the absolute unity of the communist world movement is axiomatic for every Leninist, and in terms of Stalinismis identified with the control of the Kremlin over every other section of this movement. But Mao Tse-tung clearly wishes to be a leader entirely in his own right. (DÜI-Sen)