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‘In the Soviet Union, as also in China, there was a strong belief that anti-imperial movements in the colonies would result in their moving into the socialist orbit.’

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  • Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Both Moscow and Beijing treated the wave of mid-twentieth-century decolonisation as a natural extension of their own revolutionary project, expecting newly independent states to gravitate toward socialism almost as a matter of historical inevitability — an expectation the actual record of the Third World only partially bore out.

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  • The Soviet Expectation and Its Instruments
  • The Chinese Expectation and Its Distinct Emphasis
  • The Mixed and Complicating Record

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