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American Prestige

E206 - The Sino-Soviet Split, Pt. 1 w/ Jeremy Friedman

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content. Please listen to our Sino-Soviet primer episode for some background! Danny and Derek welcome back Jeremy Friedman, assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy at Harvard, to talk about the Sino-Soviet Split. They lay out the state of play in the mid-1950s, the potential for détente, how the two powers are reconciling with their increasingly competing interests, the implications for the Soviet Union’s image among other communists in the wake of Khrushchev’s “secret speech”, theoretical transformations in what communism means during this period, how decolonization plays into the split, why Khrushchev pulled Soviet aid when China needed it most, and more through the mid-1960s. Grab a copy of Jeremy’s book Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:09.4

And then... Hello, Prestige Heads and welcome to know. I'm Danny Bessner, here as always with my friend and comrade Derek Davison.

1:12.1

And we're very excited to welcome to the podcast,

1:16.3

one of the top historians of my generation, Jeremy S. Friedman.

1:20.0

Jeremy is a Marvin Bauer associate professor at Harvard Business School and the author of a couple of books.

1:22.3

What we're really talking about today is Shadow Cold War,

1:25.8

the Sino-Soccus competition for the Third World. Jeremy,

1:29.4

thank you so much for joining us. Thank you guys for having me. So last time we left off in the

1:35.0

mid-50s, so perhaps maybe just as a means to remind listeners where we are, what was going on

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