On 1 October 1949 CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory by the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War. The PRC
On October 2, 1949, the Soviet Union was the first country to officially recognized the People's Republic of China after its establishment.
Backyard furnaces were commonly used to produce steel during the Great Leap Forward.
Red Guards on Tiananmen Square during the Cultural Revolution (1967)
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev visited PRC and met with Mao Zedong in 1958.
Sino-Soviet split
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The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the Cold War. This was primarily caused by divergences that arose from the
Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, 1945
The Sino-Soviet split initially arose in the late 1950s over the ideological divergence between Soviet leader Khrushchev's policies of De-Stalinisation and peaceful coexistence and Mao's affirmation of Stalinism and confrontation with the West. By the late 1970s, the positions were reversed; the New Cold War was beginning with the Soviet Union and the West in confrontation and China having achieved rapprochement with the United States.
A meeting of some Chinese and Soviet leaders in 1958. From left to right: Ye Jianying, Peng Dehuai, Nikolai Bulganin, and Nikita Khrushchev.