The Sino-Soviet border war of 1969: Volume 1 The border conflict that almost sparked a nuclear war
The victory of the communists in the Chinese Civil War resulted in the formation of a new socialist state in Asia – the People’s Republic of China – soon recognised and assisted by the Soviet Union. After Stalin’s death, however, relations between Moscow and Beijing began to rapidly deteriorate. Wit...
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| Zusammenfassung: | The victory of the communists in the Chinese Civil War resulted in the formation of a new socialist state in Asia – the People’s Republic of China – soon recognised and assisted by the Soviet Union. After Stalin’s death, however, relations between Moscow and Beijing began to rapidly deteriorate. With the beginning of the so-called ‘cultural revolution’ in the PRC, the disagreements intensified. Economic failures and social chaos forced the PRC’s leadership to seek to divest itself of the responsibility for what had taken place and organised a military conflict on the border with the Soviet Union to mobilise and rally the Chinese people around them. On 2 March 1969, a Chinese army detachment made a surprise attack on the Soviet border guards in the area of Damansky Island on the Ussuri River, resulting in more than 50 deaths amongst the belligerents. Further clashes along the entire Sino-Soviet border – from Primorye to Central Asia – occurred in the following weeks and months. Although smaller in scale than the Damansky events, men still died in them and shooting on Damansky Island continued practically into mid-September. The first volume of this two-part mini-series examines the historical and political precursors of the 1969 events and the battle of 2 March 1969. Principal attention is focused on a detailed chronological description of the first battle battle, Soviet and Chinese tactics, the weapons used and the fate of the men involved. Due to a wider lack of willingness to discuss events on the part of the governments of Russia and the PRC, the authors have relied on finding veterans of the battles and obtaining from them documentary evidence of those distant events. The authors believe that this study is the most detailed and objective work on the 1969 Sino-Soviet border war to date. |
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| adam_text | Helion Company Limited Unit 8 Amherst Business Centre Budbrooke Road Warwick CV34 5WE England Tel. 01926 499 619 Email: infoiahelion.co.uk Website: www.helion.co.uk Twitter: @helionbooks Visit our blog http://blog.helion.co.uk/ Text © Dmitry Ryabushkin, Harold Orenstein 2021 Photographs © as individually credited Colour profiles © Anderson Subtil, David Bocquelet, Peter Penev 2021 Maps drawn by George Anderson © Helion Company 2021 Designed typeset by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire Cover design by Paul Hewitt, Battlefield Design (www.battlefi eld-design.co.uk) Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The author and publisher apologise for any errors or omissions in this work, and would be grateful if notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book. CONTENTS Abbreviations Acknowledgements To the Readers of the English-Language Edition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 History of the Problem Before the Storm Ambush The First and the Last The Two Sides Losses: Fact and Fiction Horrific Who shot First? Manuscripts do not Burni General Shchur s Painful Memories Events on the Border through Western Eyes For Whom and Why was this Necessary? Moscow - Peking Bibliography Notes About the Authors 2 2 2 3 10 19 27 29 34 39 42 45 51 55 58 65 68 72 ISBN 978-1-914059-23-0 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may
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THE SINO-SOVIET BORDER WAR OF 1969 VOLUME 1:THE BORDER CONFLICT THAT ALMOST SPARKED A NUCLEAR WAR BIBLIOGRAPHY Books Anon., Collection of Treaties between Russia and Other States. 18561917 (Сборник договоров России с другими государствами. 1856-1917 [in Russian]) (Moscow: Publisher unknown, 1952)
Anon., Learn from the Battle Heroes ofZhenbao Island (Учитесь у боевых героев Острова Чжэеньбао, [in Russian, translated from Chinese]) (Xinhua Bookstore of Liaoning Province, Liaoning Peoples Art Printing Factory, 1970) Anon., Russia’s Border Troops in Wars and Military Conflicts of the 20th
Century (Пограничные войска в войнах и вооруженных конфликтах XX века [in Russian]) (Moscow: Granitsa, 2000) Belyavskaya, V.F. (author-compiler), Border Guards (Пограничники [in Russian]) (Minsk: Publisher unknown, 1998) Brezhnev, A.A., China: The Thorny Path to Good Neighbourliness ( Китай:
тернистый путь к добрососедству [in Russian]) (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1998) Bubenin, V.D., The Bloody Snow of Damansky (Кровавый снег Даманского [in Russian]) (Moscow: Kuchkove pole, 2004) Defense Intelligence Agency, Handbook of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, DDB-2680-32-84,1984
Drozdov, Yu.I., Notes from a Chief of Illegal Intelligence (Записки начальника нелегальной разведки [in Russian]) (Moscow: Olma-Press, 2000) Galenovich, Yu.M., Russia and China in the 20th Century. The Border (Россия и Китай в XX веке. Граница [in Russian]) (Moscow: Izograf, 2001) Galenovich, Yu.M.,
Russia—China: Six Treaties (Россия-Китай: шесть договоров [in Russian]) (Moscow: Muravey, 2003) Gladkov, V. and
Musalov, A., The Uneasy Border. 1969 (Неспокойная граница. Год 1969-й [in Russian]) (Moscow: Granitsa, 2018) Kapitsa, M.S., At Different Parallels. Notes of a Diplomat (Ha разных параллелях. Записки дипломата [in Russian]) (Moscow: AO “Kniga i biznes,” 1996) Kholmogorov, M. (compiler), Heroes of
Damansky Island (Герои острова Даманский [in Russian]) (Moscow: Molodaya gvaardiya, 1969) Leonova, Ye.D and Murin, V.B., Demokrat Leonov: a Life in the Name of Duty (Демократ Леонов: жизнь во имя долга [in Russian]) (Moscow: Granitsa, 2016) Lukashin, V., The Heroes of Damansky (Герои Даманского [in
Russian]) (Moscow: Izvestiya, 1969) Ministry of Defense of the USSR, Soviet Military Encyclopaedia (Советская военная энциклопедия [in Russian]), Vol. З (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1979) Musalov, A., Damansky and Zhalanashkol. The 1969 Sino-Soviet Armed Conflict (Даманский и Жаланашколь. Советскокитайский
вооруженный конфликт 1969 года [in Russian]) (Moscow: Izdatelskii tsentr ‘Eksprint,’ 2005) Petrov, LL, The Sino-Soviet Wars. The Truth about Damansky (Советско-китайские войны. Правда о Даманском [in Russian]) (Moscow: ‘Eksmo’: ‘Yauza,’ 2009) Razmazin, R, Damansky. Our Pain. Sorrow. Memory ...
(Даманский. Наше боль. Скорбь. Память ... [in Russian]), а project of Р. Razmazin (Dalnerechensk: B.M.I., 1999) Robinson, Thomas, ‘The People’s Republic. Part 2. Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982,’ in various authors, The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 1992) Voi. 15 Robinson, T. W., The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: Background, Development, and the
March 1969 Clashes, Rand Corporation Research Memorandum RM-6171-PR, 1970. Ryabushkin, D.S., Damansky Island. The Border Conflict. March 1969 (Остров Даманский. Пограничный конфликт. Март 1969 года [in Russian]) (Moscow: Fond ‘Russkiye Vityazi,’ 2015) Ryabushkin, D.S., It Was on Damansky (Это было
на Даманском [in Russian]) (Kazan: Publisher unknown, 2019) Ryabushkin, D.S., Myths of Damansky (Мифы Даманского [in Russian]) (Moscow: AST, 2004) Ryabushkin, D.S., Origins and Consequences of the SovietChinese Border Conflict of 1969,’ in Akihiro, Iwashita, Eager Eyes Fixed on Eurasia (Sapporo:
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2007), pp.73֊91 Sabadash, A.A. et al., Transcripts of Conversations with Veterans of the War on Damansky Island V.I. Abramov, A.S. Belozerov, M.T. Vashchenko, G.A. Kuzminykh, N.I. Nikiferov, V.S. Prosvirnikov, N.I. Ruban, V.P. Fateyev, A.I. Filimonov,
20022003 (Стенограммы бесед с участниками конфликта на острове Даманском В.И. Абрамовым, А.С. Белсеровым, М.Т. Ващенко, Г.А. Кузминых, Н.И. Никеферовым, В.С. Просвирниковым, Н.И. Рубаном, В.П. Фатеевым, А. И. Филимоновым, 2003-2004 [in Russian]) (unpublished) Streltsov, D. V. (ed.), The Territorial
Issue in the Afro-Asian World (Территориальный вопрос в афро-азиатском мире [in Russian]) (Moscow: Aspent Press, 2013) Sviderskiy, N.G., ‘Facets of Character’ (Грани характера [in Russian]), in Anon., Heroes of the Far eastern Borders (Collection ofMaterials on the Defenders of Damansky Island)
(Герои рубежей дальневосточных (Сборник материалов о защитниках острова Даманский) [in Russian]) (Khabarovsk:
Publisher unknown, 1969) Vashchenko, M.T. and Knyazev, A.L., (compilers), Island of Bravery. Recollections of Veterans of the Combat Operations on Damansky Island (Остров мужества. Воспоминания участников боевых действий на о. Даманский [in Russian]) (Khabarovsk: izdatel’stvo ‘RIOTIP’ kraevoy tipografii, 2006) Yakovets, A.P., (compiler), Damansky. This Is How It Was. The 50th Anniversary of the Border Conflict on the Ussuri River. 1969-2019 (Даманский. Так это было. 50 лет пограничному конфликту на реке Уссури. 1969-2019 [in Russian]), 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented: album (Vladivostok: Russkii ostrov, 2019) Zhibin, Chen and Xiaozhu, Sun, Confrontation at the Freezing Point: Record of the 1962-1969 Sino-Soviet Border Battles (Конфронтация при замораживании: запись советскокитайской пограничной битвы с 1962 по 1969 год [in Russian, translated from Chinese]) (Beijing: International Cultural Publication Company, 1992) Zhisui, Li, Notes of a Personal Physician (Записки личного врача [in Russian]), Book 1 (Minsk: Inter-Digest, Smolensk: TOO Ekho, 1996) 65
ASIA@WAR VOLUME 21 Periodical Articles Pamphlets Anon., ‘Damansky - Land of Heroes’ (Даманский ֊ земля героев []in Russian]), Starshina - Serzhant, 5 (1969), pp.4-7 Anon., ‘The Red Ice of the Ussuri’ (Красный лед Уссури [in Russian]), Vostok Rossit, 10:32 (1992), pp.8-9 Burr, W., ‘Sino-American Relations. 1969: The Sino-Soviet Border War and Steps Towards Rapprochement,’ Cold War History, 1:3 (2001), pp.73-112 Danhui, Li ‘Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts in 1969: Causes and Effects’ [in Chinese], Dangdai zhongguoshiyanjiu, 3 (1996), pp.39-50. Fridyev, V. ‘A Border of Living Hearts,’ (Граница живых сердец [in Russian]), Okeanskiye vesti, 17 (1999) Goldstein, Lyle, ‘Return to Zhenbao Island: Who Started Shooting and Why It Matters,’ The China Quarterly, 168 (December 2001), pp.985-997. Jun, Niu, Baijia, Zhang and others, ‘1966-1976: Isolation is Replaced by Openness’ (1966-1976: Изоляция сменяется открытостью [in Russian]), Mirovye znaniya, 13:1 July (2006), pp. 19-22 (translated from Chinese by D.V. Kiselev) Koleshnya, M.I. ‘Damansky Island, 1969’ (Остров Даманский, год 1969 [in Russian]), Rossiya i ATR, 2 (1999), pp.86-87. Kuisong, Yang, ‘The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969: From Zhenbao Island to Sino-American Rapprochement,’ Cold War History, 1:1 (2000), pp.21-53 Mizhou, Hui ‘Sino-Soviet Battles on the Border’ (Русскокитайские побоища на границе [in Russian]), Kempo, 1997, No.2 (34), pp.5-6 Ostermann, S.F., “East German Documents on the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969,” The Cold War in Asia, Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issues 6-7 (1995/96), pp. 186-193
Pankov, Yu. and Ryskin, A., ‘Secret Island: What Happened on Damansky in March 1969?’ (Таинственный остров: Что происходило на Даманском в марте 1969? [in Russian]), Molodoy Dalnevostochnik, 15 December 1990 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘Damansky Island, 2 March 1969’ (Остров Даманский, 2 Марта 1969 года [in
Russian]), Voprosy istorii, 5 (2004), pp. 148֊ 152 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘How Did the Events on Damansky Island End’ (Чем завершилось события на острове Даманском [in Russian]), Voprosy istorii, 12 (2005), pp. 168-170 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘It Was on Damanskii Island,’ The Journal of Slavic Military
Studies, 31:4 (2018), pp.1-16 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘The Myths of Damanskii Island (1969),’ The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 16:3 (2003), pp.149-172 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘New Documents on the Sino-Soviet Ussuri Border Clashes,’ Eurasia Border Review, 3 (2012), pp.161-174 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘What They
Fought with on Damanskii Island,’ The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 19 (2006), pp.149-166 Ryabushkin, D.S., and Pavliuk, V.D., ‘Soviet Artillery in the Battles for Damanskii Island,’ The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 20:1 (2007), pp.121-134 Vashchenko, G.T., ‘Damansky: (History of the
Origin of the Name Damansky Island. About Engineer S.I. Damansky)’ (Даманский: (История происхождения назв, о-ва Даманский. Об инженере С.И. Даманском)[in Russian]), Suvorovskii natisk, 11 August 1998, p.6 Verlin, Ye, ‘For Generations to Come’ (На поколения вперед [in Russian]), Ekspert, No. 27:238
(2000), p.36 Anon., ‘Down with the New Tsars!,’ Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1969 Internet Sites Anon.,
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Helion Company Limited Unit 8 Amherst Business Centre Budbrooke Road Warwick CV34 5WE England Tel. 01926 499 619 Email: infoiahelion.co.uk Website: www.helion.co.uk Twitter: @helionbooks Visit our blog http://blog.helion.co.uk/ Text © Dmitry Ryabushkin, Harold Orenstein 2021 Photographs © as individually credited Colour profiles © Anderson Subtil, David Bocquelet, Peter Penev 2021 Maps drawn by George Anderson © Helion Company 2021 Designed typeset by Farr out Publications, Wokingham, Berkshire Cover design by Paul Hewitt, Battlefield Design (www.battlefi eld-design.co.uk) Every reasonable effort has been made to trace copyright holders and to obtain their permission for the use of copyright material. The author and publisher apologise for any errors or omissions in this work, and would be grateful if notified of any corrections that should be incorporated in future reprints or editions of this book. CONTENTS Abbreviations Acknowledgements To the Readers of the English-Language Edition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 History of the Problem Before the Storm Ambush The First and the Last The Two Sides' Losses: Fact and Fiction Horrific Who shot First? Manuscripts do not Burni General Shchur's Painful Memories Events on the Border through Western Eyes For Whom and Why was this Necessary? Moscow - Peking Bibliography Notes About the Authors 2 2 2 3 10 19 27 29 34 39 42 45 51 55 58 65 68 72 ISBN 978-1-914059-23-0 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library All rights reserved. No part of this publication may
be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express written consent of Helion Company Limited. PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC We always welcome receiving book proposals from prospective authors. Note: In order to simplify the use of this book, all names, locations and geographic designations are as provided in TheTimes World Atlas, or other traditionally accepted major sources of reference, as of the time of described events. Bey·*՝·***. SlMlebMkrilwfc MOfldwn
THE SINO-SOVIET BORDER WAR OF 1969 VOLUME 1:THE BORDER CONFLICT THAT ALMOST SPARKED A NUCLEAR WAR BIBLIOGRAPHY Books Anon., Collection of Treaties between Russia and Other States. 18561917 (Сборник договоров России с другими государствами. 1856-1917 [in Russian]) (Moscow: Publisher unknown, 1952)
Anon., Learn from the Battle Heroes ofZhenbao Island (Учитесь у боевых героев Острова Чжэеньбао, [in Russian, translated from Chinese]) (Xinhua Bookstore of Liaoning Province, Liaoning Peoples Art Printing Factory, 1970) Anon., Russia’s Border Troops in Wars and Military Conflicts of the 20th
Century (Пограничные войска в войнах и вооруженных конфликтах XX века [in Russian]) (Moscow: Granitsa, 2000) Belyavskaya, V.F. (author-compiler), Border Guards (Пограничники [in Russian]) (Minsk: Publisher unknown, 1998) Brezhnev, A.A., China: The Thorny Path to Good Neighbourliness ( Китай:
тернистый путь к добрососедству [in Russian]) (Moscow: Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya, 1998) Bubenin, V.D., The Bloody Snow of Damansky (Кровавый снег Даманского [in Russian]) (Moscow: Kuchkove pole, 2004) Defense Intelligence Agency, Handbook of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, DDB-2680-32-84,1984
Drozdov, Yu.I., Notes from a Chief of Illegal Intelligence (Записки начальника нелегальной разведки [in Russian]) (Moscow: Olma-Press, 2000) Galenovich, Yu.M., Russia and China in the 20th Century. The Border (Россия и Китай в XX веке. Граница [in Russian]) (Moscow: Izograf, 2001) Galenovich, Yu.M.,
Russia—China: Six Treaties (Россия-Китай: шесть договоров [in Russian]) (Moscow: Muravey, 2003) Gladkov, V. and
Musalov, A., The Uneasy Border. 1969 (Неспокойная граница. Год 1969-й [in Russian]) (Moscow: Granitsa, 2018) Kapitsa, M.S., At Different Parallels. Notes of a Diplomat (Ha разных параллелях. Записки дипломата [in Russian]) (Moscow: AO “Kniga i biznes,” 1996) Kholmogorov, M. (compiler), Heroes of
Damansky Island (Герои острова Даманский [in Russian]) (Moscow: Molodaya gvaardiya, 1969) Leonova, Ye.D and Murin, V.B., Demokrat Leonov: a Life in the Name of Duty (Демократ Леонов: жизнь во имя долга [in Russian]) (Moscow: Granitsa, 2016) Lukashin, V., The Heroes of Damansky (Герои Даманского [in
Russian]) (Moscow: Izvestiya, 1969) Ministry of Defense of the USSR, Soviet Military Encyclopaedia (Советская военная энциклопедия [in Russian]), Vol. З (Moscow: Voyenizdat, 1979) Musalov, A., Damansky and Zhalanashkol. The 1969 Sino-Soviet Armed Conflict (Даманский и Жаланашколь. Советскокитайский
вооруженный конфликт 1969 года [in Russian]) (Moscow: Izdatelskii tsentr ‘Eksprint,’ 2005) Petrov, LL, The Sino-Soviet Wars. The Truth about Damansky (Советско-китайские войны. Правда о Даманском [in Russian]) (Moscow: ‘Eksmo’: ‘Yauza,’ 2009) Razmazin, R, Damansky. Our Pain. Sorrow. Memory .
(Даманский. Наше боль. Скорбь. Память . [in Russian]), а project of Р. Razmazin (Dalnerechensk: B.M.I., 1999) Robinson, Thomas, ‘The People’s Republic. Part 2. Revolutions within the Chinese Revolution, 1966-1982,’ in various authors, The Cambridge History of China (Cambridge University Press:
Cambridge, 1992) Voi. 15 Robinson, T. W., The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: Background, Development, and the
March 1969 Clashes, Rand Corporation Research Memorandum RM-6171-PR, 1970. Ryabushkin, D.S., Damansky Island. The Border Conflict. March 1969 (Остров Даманский. Пограничный конфликт. Март 1969 года [in Russian]) (Moscow: Fond ‘Russkiye Vityazi,’ 2015) Ryabushkin, D.S., It Was on Damansky (Это было
на Даманском [in Russian]) (Kazan: Publisher unknown, 2019) Ryabushkin, D.S., Myths of Damansky (Мифы Даманского [in Russian]) (Moscow: AST, 2004) Ryabushkin, D.S., Origins and Consequences of the SovietChinese Border Conflict of 1969,’ in Akihiro, Iwashita, Eager Eyes Fixed on Eurasia (Sapporo:
Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2007), pp.73֊91 Sabadash, A.A. et al., Transcripts of Conversations with Veterans of the War on Damansky Island V.I. Abramov, A.S. Belozerov, M.T. Vashchenko, G.A. Kuzminykh, N.I. Nikiferov, V.S. Prosvirnikov, N.I. Ruban, V.P. Fateyev, A.I. Filimonov,
20022003 (Стенограммы бесед с участниками конфликта на острове Даманском В.И. Абрамовым, А.С. Белсеровым, М.Т. Ващенко, Г.А. Кузминых, Н.И. Никеферовым, В.С. Просвирниковым, Н.И. Рубаном, В.П. Фатеевым, А. И. Филимоновым, 2003-2004 [in Russian]) (unpublished) Streltsov, D. V. (ed.), The Territorial
Issue in the Afro-Asian World (Территориальный вопрос в афро-азиатском мире [in Russian]) (Moscow: Aspent Press, 2013) Sviderskiy, N.G., ‘Facets of Character’ (Грани характера [in Russian]), in Anon., Heroes of the Far eastern Borders (Collection ofMaterials on the Defenders of Damansky Island)
(Герои рубежей дальневосточных (Сборник материалов о защитниках острова Даманский) [in Russian]) (Khabarovsk:
Publisher unknown, 1969) Vashchenko, M.T. and Knyazev, A.L., (compilers), Island of Bravery. Recollections of Veterans of the Combat Operations on Damansky Island (Остров мужества. Воспоминания участников боевых действий на о. Даманский [in Russian]) (Khabarovsk: izdatel’stvo ‘RIOTIP’ kraevoy tipografii, 2006) Yakovets, A.P., (compiler), Damansky. This Is How It Was. The 50th Anniversary of the Border Conflict on the Ussuri River. 1969-2019 (Даманский. Так это было. 50 лет пограничному конфликту на реке Уссури. 1969-2019 [in Russian]), 2nd edition, corrected and supplemented: album (Vladivostok: Russkii ostrov, 2019) Zhibin, Chen and Xiaozhu, Sun, Confrontation at the Freezing Point: Record of the 1962-1969 Sino-Soviet Border Battles (Конфронтация при замораживании: запись советскокитайской пограничной битвы с 1962 по 1969 год [in Russian, translated from Chinese]) (Beijing: International Cultural Publication Company, 1992) Zhisui, Li, Notes of a Personal Physician (Записки личного врача [in Russian]), Book 1 (Minsk: Inter-Digest, Smolensk: TOO Ekho, 1996) 65
ASIA@WAR VOLUME 21 Periodical Articles Pamphlets Anon., ‘Damansky - Land of Heroes’ (Даманский ֊ земля героев []in Russian]), Starshina - Serzhant, 5 (1969), pp.4-7 Anon., ‘The Red Ice of the Ussuri’ (Красный лед Уссури [in Russian]), Vostok Rossit, 10:32 (1992), pp.8-9 Burr, W., ‘Sino-American Relations. 1969: The Sino-Soviet Border War and Steps Towards Rapprochement,’ Cold War History, 1:3 (2001), pp.73-112 Danhui, Li ‘Sino-Soviet Border Conflicts in 1969: Causes and Effects’ [in Chinese], Dangdai zhongguoshiyanjiu, 3 (1996), pp.39-50. Fridyev, V. ‘A Border of Living Hearts,’ (Граница живых сердец [in Russian]), Okeanskiye vesti, 17 (1999) Goldstein, Lyle, ‘Return to Zhenbao Island: Who Started Shooting and Why It Matters,’ The China Quarterly, 168 (December 2001), pp.985-997. Jun, Niu, Baijia, Zhang and others, ‘1966-1976: Isolation is Replaced by Openness’ (1966-1976: Изоляция сменяется открытостью [in Russian]), Mirovye znaniya, 13:1 July (2006), pp. 19-22 (translated from Chinese by D.V. Kiselev) Koleshnya, M.I. ‘Damansky Island, 1969’ (Остров Даманский, год 1969 [in Russian]), Rossiya i ATR, 2 (1999), pp.86-87. Kuisong, Yang, ‘The Sino-Soviet Border Clash of 1969: From Zhenbao Island to Sino-American Rapprochement,’ Cold War History, 1:1 (2000), pp.21-53 Mizhou, Hui ‘Sino-Soviet Battles on the Border’ (Русскокитайские побоища на границе [in Russian]), Kempo, 1997, No.2 (34), pp.5-6 Ostermann, S.F., “East German Documents on the Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969,” The Cold War in Asia, Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issues 6-7 (1995/96), pp. 186-193
Pankov, Yu. and Ryskin, A., ‘Secret Island: What Happened on Damansky in March 1969?’ (Таинственный остров: Что происходило на Даманском в марте 1969? [in Russian]), Molodoy Dalnevostochnik, 15 December 1990 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘Damansky Island, 2 March 1969’ (Остров Даманский, 2 Марта 1969 года [in
Russian]), Voprosy istorii, 5 (2004), pp. 148֊ 152 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘How Did the Events on Damansky Island End’ (Чем завершилось события на острове Даманском [in Russian]), Voprosy istorii, 12 (2005), pp. 168-170 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘It Was on Damanskii Island,’ The Journal of Slavic Military
Studies, 31:4 (2018), pp.1-16 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘The Myths of Damanskii Island (1969),’ The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 16:3 (2003), pp.149-172 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘New Documents on the Sino-Soviet Ussuri Border Clashes,’ Eurasia Border Review, 3 (2012), pp.161-174 Ryabushkin, D.S., ‘What They
Fought with on Damanskii Island,’ The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 19 (2006), pp.149-166 Ryabushkin, D.S., and Pavliuk, V.D., ‘Soviet Artillery in the Battles for Damanskii Island,’ The Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 20:1 (2007), pp.121-134 Vashchenko, G.T., ‘Damansky: (History of the
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| title_short | The Sino-Soviet border war of 1969 |
| title_sort | the sino soviet border war of 1969 the border conflict that almost sparked a nuclear war |
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| volume_link | (DE-604)BV047421622 (DE-604)BV044771918 |
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