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Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967, by Sergey Radchenko. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xx + 315 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover).

In 1962-63 when the beginnings of the Sino-Soviet rift documented here by Sergey Radchenko were becoming evident, I was a post-graduate student at Moscow State University on the official Soviet- American exchange program, and witnessed growing tension between my Soviet dormitory mates and Chinese students. By 1963, African student friends began handing me some of the Chinese brochures setting forth Mao Zedong's arguments against alleged Soviet …