Economic Alliance, Economic Split: Technology Transfers, Trade and Models of Industrialization between China and Soviet Eastern Europe in the Early Cold War

This book delivers crucial historical background in these times, as bloc-building returns to the global economy and China and Russia massively intensify their economic cooperation. It gathers global cutting-edge research on the economic exchanges in the early years of the Cold War between the newly formed People’s Republic of China and Soviet Eastern Europe.

Based on multidimensional archival sources from China, Eastern Europe, and beyond, this book departs from the traditional Cold War acco...