Examining Russian-Chinese relations from Moscow's perspective, this important study illuminates the forces driving Moscow's China policy from 1969 to the 1990s, and concludes that the future of the partnership depends on forces of change.

1. Introduction -- pt. I. Breznev's Containment Policy. 2. The Soviet Union's China Strategy, 1969-79. 3. The Sino-Soviet Conflict in Perspective -- pt. II. The Road to Beijing. 4. Leadership Change in the USSR and Sino-Soviet Relations, 1980-85. 5. Pressures for Continuity and Change in Soviet China Policy in the Early 1980s. 6. From Rapprochement to Normalization. 7. The Gorbachev Revolution and China Policy -- pt. III. Toward Sino-Russian Partnership. 8. Sino-Russian Relations in the Yeltsin Era. 9. Moscow and the Border Regions Debate Russia's China Policy.