RUDN Journal of World HistoryRUDN Journal of World History2312-81272312-833XPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)2326110.22363/2312-8127-2019-11-3-222-234Research ArticleThe evolutionary process of normalization of Soviet-Chinese relations and its historical significanceChunyueLu<p>Professor, Changchun Normal University, Postgraduate student of Departement of World History, Siberian Federal University</p>1134784777@qq.comChangchun Normal UniversitySiberian Federal University1512201911322223424032020Copyright © 2019, Chunyue L.2019<p>The normalization of Sino-Soviet relations reflects the gradual release of Chinas foreign policy from the framework of strategic thinking that emerged during the Cold War and reflects a new diplomatic concept that has developed and enriched by Chinese leaders in the course of openness reforms. After almost three decades, the Chinese leaders finally advanced the Social Path with Chinese Characteristics and chose the Independent Peaceful Foreign Policy, which marks the implementation of radical coordination between Chinas national development strategy and foreign policy since the late 1950s, marking the end of the cold war. The normalization of Sino-Soviet relations had an important influence not only on the entire process of the Cold War, but also on the social and political processes in China, in the first place. The process of development of Soviet-Chinese and Russian-Chinese relations directly reflects the establishment and regulation of domestic and foreign policy after the founding of New China, which has a great influence on the international political arena.</p>cold warChinese and Soviet relationsDeng XiaopingMikhail GorbachevХолодная войнасоветско-китайские отношенияДэн СяопинМихаил Горбачев[The development of relations between the USSR and China in the twentieth century. URL: http://davaiknam.ru/text/razvitie-otnoshenij-mejdu-sssr-i-kitaem-v-xx-veke-stanovlenie][Zhou Enlai’s biography in chronological sequence 1949–1976. Beijing: a documentary study of the cabinet of the Central Committee of the CPC, 2010.][Contrary to the interests of peace and socialism // Pravda. 1979. April 7.][People’s Daily. 1979. April 4.][Balakin V.S., L. Xiaoing. PRC and USSR in the 1960s and 1980s: from confrontation to equal cooperation. 2016. Vol. 16. No. 1. Pp. 11–14.][The development of the concept of national security in the sence of ensuring the defense capability of the People’s Republic of China on the present stage. URL: https://www. bestreferat.ru/referat-207966.html][Deng Xiaoping. The current situation and the task // Collection of selected works of Dan Dao Xiaoping. Vol. 2. Moscow: Zheimin Chubanshe, 1994.][National People’s Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. URL: http: //www.china. com.cn/guoqing/node_7165966.htm][Sino-Soviet relations in the 1960s and 1980s. Attempts to normalize and the causes of failure. URL: https: //mybiblioteka.su/7-28282.html][Deng Xiaoping. Peace and development are two main problems of the modern world // Collection of selected works of Dan Dao Xiaoping. Vol. 3. Moscow: Zheimin Chubanshe, 1995.][Deng Xiaoping. Reducing the army, improving the quality of the army // Military collection of selected works of Deng Xiaoping. Vol. 3. Moscow: Military science. Central literature, 1995.][Li Fenglin. “Moscow, 20 years old,” “Chinese Modern Diplomacy.” Moscow: Mirovoye znaniye Publ., 1996. P. 309.][Visit of Mikhail Gorbachev to China. URL: https://ed-glezin.livejournal.com/1006691.html][Sino-Soviet Relations at the End of the Cold War. URL: https://ludirosta.ru/post/sovetsko-kitayskie-otnosheniya-v-kontse-kholodnoy-voyny_1904][Soviet-Chinese relations in 1950–1989. URL: http://biofile.ru/his/32137.html]