A Study Of India’s Diplomacy Towards The Soviet Union In The Nehru Period

India’s relationship with Soviet Union had an obvious change in the Nehruperiod, altering and closing to Soviet Union as assisting a neutralism foreign policy. The article, focus on the change of the India attitude to Soviet Union and the perpetual evolution on India-Soviet Relationshipin Nehruperiod,analyzes the development and the changing reason of India- Soviet relationship in this stage in depth.The diplomacy and the closeness of India with Soviet Union are the process of changing. The paper is maked up of 4 pieces. At first, it states the India-Soviet relationship before India’s independence from England and the condition at home and aboard at the beginning of the independence, analyzes the whole background of India-Soviet’s contact. Secondly, it‘s about independent India‘s neutralism-the initial foreign policy during the Nehru to Soviet, explore the flatness of India-Soviet from 1947 to 1953 and the reason. Then, it focus on the positive change from 1954 to 1958 that India token the initiative to stretch out its hand to Soviet basing on the neutralism. Why would that happen?On the one hand, it’s about Kashmir and the alliance on American-Pakistan. on the other hand, Nehru had a new view on Soviet’s foreign policyand India‘s economy need Soviet’s help. Whatever, the transition on India-Soviet brings a good development to them. What‘s more, it makes clear that the relation on India and Soviet gone on from 1959 to 1964. The pro-Soviet policy, neutralism, can continue because of the worsening of Sino-India and the problem of Goa. Owing to that, India-Soviet relationship come to the top in the Nehruperiod.In short, India’s attitude to Soviet was based on its own National interests and security and demonstrated the process on evolving and developing neutralism. In this stage, India-Sovietrelationship changed from frigid to friendly and would heated up.