The Economy of the Sino-Soviet Alliance.: Die Ökonomie der sino-sowjetischen Allianz

Chen Tao () and Zofka Jan ()
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Chen Tao: Institute for German Studies, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, 200092 Shanghai, PR China
Zofka Jan: Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Reichsstr. 4-6, D-04109 Leipzig, Germany

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2022, vol. 63, issue 2, 575-610

Abstract: This article examines the research literature on the economic aspects of the “Sino-Soviet Alliance”, which lasted from the end of the Chinese Civil war until the Sino-Soviet split (1949-1960/63). The Soviet and Eastern European contribution to China’s industrialization, called the “largest technology transfer in human history” by some, still awaits detailed examination. This article aims to structure the field as well as inspire future research. The included studies range from on-the-ground microstudies of engineers at specific industrial construction projects to macro-perspectives on economic exchange, trade and governmental negotiations. In contrast to classical Cold War perspectives, which assume a primacy of (geo-)politics, the paper builds on more recent studies, arguing that economic rationales mattered in both the split and the forging of the alliance. The literature review suggests that the room for manoeuvre of actors beyond the Kremlin and party leaderships has to be measured anew, and that the impact of the alliance on Eastern Europe awaits further research. Finally, the influence of the West with its technologies and world markets becomes visible when these apparently exclusive East-East relations are examined more closely.

Keywords: Sino-Soviet alliance; Cold War economy; Socialist foreign economic policy; East-South relations; Socialist globalization; Sino-sowjetische Allianz; Ökonomie des Kalten Krieges; Außenwirtschaftspolitik sozialistischer Staaten; Ost-Süd-Beziehungen; Sozialistische Globalisierung (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2022-0020

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