Author:
Jersild, Austin.
Imprint:Chapel Hill, (North Carolina : The University of North Carolina Press, c2014.
Descriptionxi, 330 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction : the imperial question transformed : the socialist bloc as international history -- Proletarian internationalism in practice : pay, misbehavior, and incentives under socialism -- Learning from the Central Europeans : authority and expertise in the era of reform -- Interpreting the red poppy : practical learning, spiritual pollution -- China's conditional affirmation of Soviet leadership, 1956-1957 -- The socialist bloc comes to its senses : responding to the Great Leap Forward -- China's outreach to a world betrayed : the response to Soviet "revisionism," 1958-1964 -- Friends, neighbors, enemies : the Chinese transformation of the friendship society -- Conclusion : frustration and betrayal : Russian imperialism, Chinese ambition, Central European pragmatism.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
