The Sino-Soviet alliance: an international history

Introduction : the imperial question transformed : the socialist bloc as international history

Proletarian internationalism in practice : pay, misbehavior, and incentives under socialism

Learning from the Central Europeans : authority and expertise in the era of reform

Interpreting the red poppy : practical learning, spiritual pollution

China's conditional affirmation of Soviet leadership, 1956-1957

The socialist bloc comes to its senses : responding to the Great Leap Forward

China's outreach to a world betrayed : the response to Soviet "revisionism," 1958-1964

Friends, neighbors, enemies : the Chinese transformation of the friendship society

Conclusion : frustration and betrayal : Russian imperialism, Chinese ambition, Central European pragmatism.