The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History by Austin Jersild.

The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History When this book on the Sino-Soviet split during the Cold War was published in 2014, it joined two other prominent works that were also based on extensive international archival research. But without leaders with strong personalities such as Mao and Khrushchev, China and the Soviet Union might have been able to avoid a rupture in the early 1960s and border clashes in 1969. Thus, by 1958, a left-turning China under Mao and a right-leaning Soviet Union under Khrushchev could not see eye to eye and stay on good terms. [Extracted from the article]