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9 Probs. Communism 1 (1960)
Pattern and Limits of the Sino-Soviet Dispute

handle is hein.journals/probscmu9 and id is 275 raw text is: CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS Pattern and Limits of the Sino-Soviet Dispute By Zbigniew Brzezinski EDITORS' NOTE: The May-June 1960 issue of this journal carried the widely-discussed article by Donald S. Zagoria, 'Strains in the Sino-Soviet Alliance, which offered a thorough and detailed exposition of the various issues and tensions which have arisen between the two major Communist powers within the past few years. In the article below, Professor Brzezinski's aim is not so much to amplify this discussion in terms of actual developments, but rather to offer an explanation of why some of these differences have emerged, and why they must, given the present relationship between Moscow and Peking, remain frozen at a certain point. In delineating both the causes and the limits of the current conflict, he places it in a more meaningful historical, ideological and political perspective. THERE CAN NO LONGER BE any doubt that in the course of recent months a significant and sharp dis- agreement has developed between Moscow and Peking. The essence of the argument concerns the question of methods to be used by the Communist camp in its strug- gle for a world-wide victory. More specifically, the following issues have generated particular heat: 1) the problem of war in the period prior to a complete Com- munist victory; 2) the matter of peaceful coexistence and the related problems of how to; capitalize on the anti- colonial struggle; 3) the issue of disarmament and the sharing of nuclear weapons; 1 4) the stages of the In a militant speech Liu Chang-sheng, vice-president of the Chinese trade unions, has hinted strongly that only by sharing its nuclear weapons with the other Communist states can the Soviet Union exert pressure on the West to accept a nuclear ban: We hold that the utmost efforts must be made to reach agreements A frequent contributor to this journal, Mr. Brzezinski was recently appointed Associate Professor of Public Law and Government at the Russian Institute, Columbia Uni- versity, New York. His latest book, The Soviet Bloc- Unity and Conflict (Harvard University Press, 1960) was reviewed in the July-August issue of this journal. domestic construction of communism.2 The Sino-Soviet dialogue evokes echoes of the violent disagreement in 1909 within the Bolshevik movement between Lenin and A. A. Bogdanov and his supporters. The latter rejected the view that a phase of organic development was transitionally at hand, and they charged Lenin and his group with drifting in the Menshevik direction, with abandoning the revolutionary struggle which, according to the Bogdanovites, was more essential . . . than ever before. The very existence of Sino-Soviet differences has far- reaching implications for the future of the Communist on the banning of nuclear weapons and to prevent the outbreak of a nuclear war in the world. Soviet mastery of nuclear weap- ons has not deprived US imperialism of its monopoly of such weapons. The Soviet Union and the other socialist countries should continue to develop their lead in the sphere of atomic energy and, at the same time, the people throughout the world should wage a more extensive struggle against imperialism and against nuclear weapons. Only in these circumstances can such agreement be reached. (Radio Peking, June 8, 1960.) 2 The reader will find an able recapitulation and analysis of these issues in D. Zagoria, Strains in the Sino-Soviet Alliance, Problems of Communism. May-June 1960.

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