From The Evolution Of Sino-soviet Relations, The Motives Of The "great Leap Forward" (1958 ~ 1960)

It is a hot issue for researchers both home and abroad to explain the evolution of the Sino-Soviet relations from the 1950s to the 1960s, and the causes heading for the public split from honeymoon between China and the Soviet Union. This article offers an explanation from a special angle, which focuses on the evolution of Sino-Soviet relations, takes the Sino-Soviet relations from March 1953 to May 1958 as the research background, analyzes and summarizes the evaluative process and situation between China and the Soviet Union, discloses the cause of the "Great Leap forward" movement in China.The relations between China and the Soviet Union move toward public split from general cooperation, seeking common grounds while reserving differences, mutual distrust and being on the alert to going their own ways, gradual coldness, mutual censure and fierce confrontation from May 1958 to the end of 1960.On the whole, the evolution of the Sino-Soviet relations affects the "Great Leap forward" movement directly and indirectly, no matter subjectively or objectively. That is to say, when the relations between China and the Soviet Union are cooperative and friendly, the passional support and massive aids from the Soviet Union for China play the most important external role in the violent developing of China's "Great Leap forward" movement and making great achievement, and when the relations between the two countries gradually worsen and move toward the final public split, the hostile actions and words of the Soviet Union, to a large extent, make China's "Great Leap forward" movement in trouble, but unexpectedly trigger all the Chinese people's passion for the unyielding and self-reliant characters, leading to the continuous "Great Leap forward" movement.However, the "Great Leap forward" movement finally brings about severe disasters for China.