E208 - The Sino-Soviet Split, Pt. 2 w/ Jeremy Friedman

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, Politics, News

4.8 • 705 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Subscribe now for an ad-free experience and much more content⁠. Please listen to ⁠our Sino-Soviet primer episode⁠ and part one of this discussion 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. The conversation picks up in the 1960s with the Soviets’ push for peaceful coexistence vs the PRC and developing world’s push for anti-imperialist armed struggle, how the Cultural Revolution affects the calculation, Mao’s growing distrust of the USSR, the split itself, ideological vanguardism vs elitism, imperialism without capitalism, whether a split was inevitable, and more. 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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1:04.0	And then... Hello, Prestige Head, and Prestige.
1:05.0	I'm Danny Bessner, as always, my Flanden, Comrade, Derek Davison.
1:09.0	And we're excited to welcome back to the podcast
1:11.4	jeremy s freedman you know him we love him jeremy is a Marvin bower associate professor
1:17.1	at harvard business school and the author of several books but the one we'll be talking about today
1:22.2	is shadow cold war the sino-soviet competition for third world. Jeremy, thank you so much for joining us.
1:29.1	Thank you for having me.
1:30.8	So let's start where we left off, which is in the mid-1960s, post-Cuban missile crisis.
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