Cooperation between the USSR and the PRC in the field of physical culture and sports in the 1950s.

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
N.R. Novoseltsev ◽  
◽  
A.V. Surzhko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
The 1950S

The article examines the main aspects of cooperation between the USSR and the PRC in the field of physical culture and sports in the «golden age» of Soviet-Chinese relations in the 1950s. Sport has become one of the factors that contributed to active bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The Soviet Union, as an “elder brother”, provided the young People’s Republic of China with comprehensive assistance in the development of national physical culture and sports, shared experience, and also sent and received numerous sports delegations. The beginning of the Soviet-Chinese split for a long time suspended cooperation between the two countries, including in the sports field, which was resumed only in the 1980s.

scholarly journals Soviet economic assistance to China in the 1950s

2019 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
Andrey M. Belov ◽  
Dmitriy A. Bulyukin ◽  
Lee Tong
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Working Class ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The 1950S

The Soviet-Chinese relations in the 1950s are considered in the article through the prism of the Soviet Union's economic help to China. The review of sources and historical literature devoted to the studied problem is provided, positions of both Russian and Chinese historians are estimated, concrete contracts and agreements between two countries are analysed. The authors come to a conclusion that what was the cornerstone of the Soviet economic help to China in the 1950s, in many respects meant the ideological reasons: what was the base of ideology of the leading parties of both countries, was Marxism-Leninism. What was a basis of the help to People's Republic of China from the Soviet Union became the aspiration to create the industry which would be modern at that time and would promote formation of the Chinese working class as the main ally of working class of the Soviet Union.

SOVIET-CHINESE COOPERATION IN THE FIELD OF SPORTS AFTER THE NORMALIZATION OF BILATERAL RELATIONS ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE IRKUTSK REGION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-149
Author(s):  
A.V. Surzhko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Bilateral Relations ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Irkutsk Region ◽  
Ping Pong ◽  
Bilateral Cooperation ◽  
Sports Officials

The article examines the main aspects of Soviet-Chinese cooperation in the field of sports after the normalization of bilateral relations in the late 1980s — early 1990s. Sport was one of the factors that contributed to overcoming the consequences of the thirty-year split between the USSR and the PRC at the state, regional and informal levels. During this period, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China actively exchanged numerous sports delegations, adopting each other's successful experience in organizing and conducting competitions, as well as training athletes. In the USSR, Chinese national sports were popularized, primarily wushu and ping-pong. More traditional for the Soviet side was football, matches in which Soviet and Chinese athletes repeatedly played. Also, the article reveals some economic aspects of sports bilateral cooperation. A common thing for this period was the conclusion of various kinds of agreements and contracts at the interregional level, including those related to the sports component. The personal role of regional party functionaries, sports officials and athletes in the development of Soviet-Chinese relations is shown. There is a certain continuity between the perestroika period and the "golden age" of Soviet-Chinese cooperation in the 1950s. The experience of cooperation in sports gained at the end of perestroika had a beneficial effect on the development of Russian-Chinese relations in the 1990s. The study is carried out on the example of the Irkutsk region, which, due to objective reasons, has developed long-term and strong relations with a number of Chinese cities. The main source of the research was the Irkutsk regional periodicals.

scholarly journals Collecting and compiling the oral accounts of Chinese scientists trained in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s: Practice and reflection

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-205
Author(s):  
Liyuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Candidate Selection ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Collective Experience ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Selection Framework ◽  
Detailed Presentation

In recent years, the recovery and compilation of the oral histories of scientists has attracted increasing attention. The focus of the research has also expanded from individual experiences to collective experience. As part of the Project on Collecting the Historical Data of Chinese Scientists’ Academic Life, and following the norms of historiography, I and other team members compiled oral interviews and accounts of Chinese scientists trained in the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. Through the procedures of data collection, candidate selection, framework construction and detailed presentation, I compiled the oral accounts of 16 Soviet-educated Chinese scientists, supplemented by photos, annotations and other information. These materials describe the lived circumstances and feelings of those scientists in the early days of the People’s Republic of China and recreate the collective experience of this generation of scientists from multiple angles.

Brothers at War

2020 ◽  
pp. 384-405
Author(s):  
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Phnom Penh ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Visual Strategies ◽  
Democratic Kampuchea

In January 1979, Vietnamese troops triumphantly entered Phnom Penh, the capital of Democratic Kampuchea ruled by the Khmer Rouge. The images they produced to justify their military offensive dwelled on the horror of the atrocities committed by the overthrown Pol Pot regime in the former torture center code-named S-21. In the framework of a split within the communist Bloc between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, this article discusses three strategies put forward by the Vietnamese propaganda machinery in which the visual imagery of the former prison played a crucial role: an intense documentary production, the atrocity-themed museum constructed on the site of S-21, and the trial for genocide held in absentia against Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. These visual strategies aimed to deprive the Khmer Rouge of their communist status by associating them with Nazis and their crimes.

Ascertaining Social Fact

2020 ◽  
pp. 55-88
Author(s):  
Arunabh Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Social Fact ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Correct Understanding ◽  
Technical Aid ◽  
Statistical Work

This chapter focuses on the theoretical and ideological justification of socialist statistical work. It also provides an assessment of Soviet technical aid and introduces the Soviet statistical experts who were instrumental in helping organize statistical activity in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The chapter first uncovers and understands the socialist critique of statistics and, second, analyzes the role of the Soviet statistical experts who spent time in China and who were instrumental in the rise of socialist statistics to a position of epistemological and administrative dominance. It provides a discussion of the 1950s (or, more accurately, the years after 1945) as a period when the imperative to ascertain social fact took on added urgency throughout the world. There existed, however, competing approaches to ascertaining social fact. The chapter thus moves on to the rise of socialist statistics, in particular its rise in the Soviet Union (USSR), and contrasts it with other approaches to statistics. It then explores the Soviet experts who spent extended periods of time in the PRC, examining the variety of ways—teaching, translation of textbooks, and consultation—by which their expertise was mobilized by the Chinese as it sought to disseminate a correct understanding and implementation of socialist statistics.

Recruiting Agents in Industry and Trade—Lifting the Veil on Early People's Republic of China Operational Work

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 1345-1369 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL SCHOENHALS
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
People’S Republic Of China ◽  
Public Security ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Operational Activities ◽  
The Veil ◽  
Economic Espionage

AbstractThis paper is concerned with the operational activities of the public security organs of the People's Republic of China during the immediate post-1949 period of regime consolidation. The main part of the paper is a case-study of a 1950 pilot scheme to recruit agents in critical sectors of industry and trade in the city of Yingkou in Northeast China, a scheme in due course subsumed under a nationwide programme with a similar focus. In the years to follow, the operational recruitment of agents would become one of China's arguably most important operational responses to the twin Cold War threats of economic espionage and—above all—sabotage. This paper's findings suggest, with respect to operational activities, that in order to represent and explain more fully, in Leopold von Ranke's words, ‘how things really were’, social and political historians may well want to shift their focus away from successive highly public Maoist ‘mass movements’ and look instead to what transpired out of the public eye in the interregnum of ordinary times that such movements punctuated. If and when they do, they will discover significant yet hitherto largely unexplored similarities between the work of the early People's Republic of China public security organs and their counterparts in the Soviet Union and other (former) socialist states.

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