Washington History Seminar
Historical Perspectives on International and National Affairs

Sino-Soviet Relations and the Dilemmas of Socialist Bloc Cooperation: Czechoslovaks in Shanghai, 1956-57

Austin Jersild
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY

In contrast to traditional approaches to Sino-Soviet relations that focus on ideological conflict and the role of powerful personalities such as Chairman Mao and Nikita Khrushchev, Austin Jersild draws on the experiences of advisers in China in the 1950s to place the Sino-Soviet alliance and split within the broader history of socialist bloc cooperation and the Cold War competition with the United States.

Austin Jersild is Associate Professor of History at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and Chair of the Department of History.  He is the author of Orientalism and Empire:  North Caucasus Mountain Peoples and the Georgian Frontier, 1845-1917 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002), and The Sino-Soviet Alliance:  An International History (University of North Carolina Press, 2014).

Monday October 27, 2014
4:00 p.m. 
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room
Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop