Endgame of the Long Cold War

.... As for the second causative factor of the schism, the attitude to Stalin’s historical role is very different today, to the one that prevailed in the USSR in 1956 and after, contributing to the Sino-Soviet split. The third factor was... ... that a common threat and a fairly congruent or compatible domestic model (of state capitalism) make the Eurasian core states share far more substantive geostrategic interests... ... rather than inhibited or retarded by a Eurasian ‘core-state counterweight’ to the West and the space provided by such a bipolar balance. The Bandung Conference of 1955...