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tion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980). On U.S.
condemned the peculiar positions of the
11, The United States, the East German
policy see National Security Archive, ed., Presidential
Chinese leadership. We believe it necessary
Directives on National Security From Truman to Clinton Uprising of 1953, and the Limits of Roll-
to follow attentively and vigilantly the fur- (Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healy, 1994), 286.
back. This article was adapted from a
4. On research in the SED Archives see my New
ther development of the situation in China
longer analysis of SED archival documents
Research on the GDR, Cold War International His-
itself, the activity of the Beijing leadership
on the Sino-Soviet border conflict to be
tory Project Bulletin 4 (Fall 1994), 34, 39-44.
in the sphere of Soviet-Chinese relations,
5. Tai Sung An, The Sino-Soviet Territorial Dispute presented at the CWIHP Conference on New
and also the international arena overall.
(Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1973).
Evidence on the Cold War in Asia at the
6. Cohen, Sino-Soviet Border Crisis, 270.
The CC CPSU and the Soviet govern-
University of Hong Kong in January 1996.
7. Harvey W. Nelson, Power and Insecurity: Beijing,
ment believe that if the Chinese leaders
COLD WAR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY PROJECT BULLETIN 194
IN THE REGION AND ganda in Beijing had not been abated. Bokan The new opportunities to examine the hold-
IN THE CENTER: urged his comrades to be prepared for any ings of regional party archives will further
SOVIET REACTIONS TO THE provocation on the border, while his col- expand our knowledge of regional concerns
BORDER RIFT league in the military district, comrade and center-regional relations in the Soviet
Popov, noted that Chinese ideological posi- period.
by Elizabeth Wishnick tions were dangerous for the international
communist movement and cannot but evoke * * * * *
How did Soviet Communist Party offi- alarm among the Soviet people. Comrade
cials and activists in the regions bordering N.V. Sverdlov, the rector of the Khabarovsk Document I: Stenographic Record of
the People s Republic of China respond to Pedagogical Institute, called attention to the Meeting of Khabarovsk regional and
the news of Aleksei Kosygin s 11 September fact that Zhou had told Kosygin that China s city party officials, 22 September 1969
1969 meeting with Zhou Enlai in Beijing? ideological struggle with the CPSU would
The two documents below, from the State continue for another 10,000 years.
Archive of Khabarovskiy Kray (territory) in In its report, the Khabarovskiy Kray STENOGRAPHIC RECORD
the Russian Far East,1 show the reactions committee expressed the region s support
of several leading party members in the for the Center s policy toward China. In so of the meeting of the Khabarovsk regional
frontier region to Central Committee and doing, the regional committee at times in- and city party aktiv
Soviet government efforts to defuse the rup- serted comments which were not in the steno-
ture with China. graphic record, for example, praising the 22 September 1969
One document is the stenographic Kosygin-Zhou meeting for being mutually
record of a 22 September 1969 meeting of beneficial. First Secretary of the Khabarovsk re-
the regional and city party aktiv convened Because the region s reporting function gional committee of the CPSU, comr. A.P.
to discuss the Central Committee s account had the result of legitimating the Center s Shitikov, opened the meeting:
of Kosygin s discussion of the border con- policies, comments by the regional aktiv Comrades, we brought you together to
flict with Zhou. The second document is the which raised uncomfortable questions for familiarize you with the information of the
Khabarovskiy Kray party committee s re- the party leadership were omitted. For ex- Central Committee of the Communist party
port of the same meeting to the CPSU CC in ample, the secretary of the Komsomolsk-na- of the Soviet Union about the question of the
Moscow. Amure city committee of the CPSU, Com- visit by the Soviet party-governmental del-
In comparing the two documents, it is rade Shul ga, restated the standard line that egation to Hanoi and the discussion between
particularly interesting to note their differ- Soviet efforts to improve relations with China comr. A.N Kosygin and Zhou Enlai. Today
ences in emphasis. The Khabarovskiy Kray would resonate with the healthy forces2 in I will acquaint you with the information.
report to the CPSU CC accentuates the Chinese society (i.e., among communists) (Reads the information aloud).
positive, stressing that Kosygin s meeting and then noted that in Czechoslovakia the
with Zhou represented a step toward resolv- Soviet Union had correctly intervened in Comr. Shitikov - The floor goes to com-
ing Soviet-Chinese differences through support of communists when the revolution s rade Pasternak, secretary of the Khabarovsk
peaceful means. According to the steno- gains were endangered. Comrade city committee of the CPSU.
graphic record, however, many of the speak- Kadochnikov, a Khabarovsk worker, com- Comr. PASTERNAK
ers described the problems in the border mented that he had trouble reconciling Chi- Comrades, the communists of the
region in much greater detail than was nese anti-Soviet propaganda with the PRC s Khabarovsk city party organization and all
reported to Moscow. Although they all claim to be a socialist state. Comrade the workers of the city of Khabarovsk di-
applauded Kosygin s meeting with Zhou, Sverdlov stated that in the past polemics had rected particular attention to the report of the
some speakers noted that little change in the some value for the international communist meeting in Beijing between the President of
border situation had been observed since movement, and then cited the polemics with the Council of Ministers of the USSR and
their encounter eleven days before. Com- Palmiro Togliatti, the long-time leader of the the President of the State Council of the PRC
rade I.K. Bokan , for example, the head of Italian Communist Party, as an example. Zhou Enlai. It explains the increasingly
the political department of a military dis- Still, he concluded that Chinese policies were tense situation between the PRC and the
trict in the region, noting that there had so unrestrained that they went beyond the Soviet Union, which is the fault of the Chi-
been over 300 incidents of incursions by definition of useful polemics. nese leaders.
Chinese citizens onto Soviet territory in his These two documents are valuable for Khabarovsk residents are well aware of
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