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[WHAT BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA DESIRED IN CHINA] Soviet Russia’s Relation to China. Bulletin No. 7

Item #2670

[San Francisco]: American Committee for Fair Play in China, November 1927. 10 pp. 23 × 15,5 cm. In original printed wrappers. Pencil marks, rusty staples and some spots around them, some creases, otherwise good.

This pamphlet of the American Committee for Fair Play in China was published when the Sino-Soviet Conflict over the Chinese Eastern Railway was heating up. The American Committee for Fair Play in China emerged after the shooting of Chinese students’ demonstration in 1925. Through lecturers and public meetings, the organization sought “to make information concerning China available to increase sympathy and understanding between the East and the West”.
The bulletin opens with a brief historical outline of interstate relations in 1895–1927. Then it includes texts on Russian policy toward China before and after 1917, the Chinese Communist Party. The edition states: “According to the logic of events and opinions of many experienced Chinese and Russian leaders, the establishment of a Communist state in China is neither possible nor desirable at present. The only obvious cause to unite Asia against the West is the issue of the common enemy, not common interests. And if Western nations refuse to be the aggressor, Russia’s attempt to create pan-Asiatic unity loses any menace for them”.
Diplomatic relations between the USSR and China were established in 1924, revising and reconstructing joint management on the Chinese Eastern Railway. Soon after the Soviet administration of the CER emerged, its representatives started to fight over the spoils. They sought to achieve complete subordination of the CER governing bodies to the interests of the Soviet Union. As a result, some of them were arrested by Chinese authorities. During the early years of the Chinese Civil War, Soviet-Chinese interstate relations had experienced a complete breakdown in ties between the ruling parties, shooting and arrests of diplomats or other representatives, the destruction of diplomatic missions and consulates. The USSR recalled its diplomatic, consular, and trade representatives and expelled Chinese officials from the country. Military actions lasted from October to December 1929. In the same years, a number of hostile actions were carried out against Soviet embassies and trade missions in Great Britain, Germany and Poland, therefore, the conflict on the CER was regarded by the Soviet Union as part of a large conspiracy of the imperialists against the USSR.

Worldcat shows copies located in Columbia, Michigan, Syracuse Universities, Swarthmore and Trinity Colleges, Newberry Library.

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