of 1957 marked an important turning point in the evolution
of the Sino-Soviet dispute over world Communist strategy.
Assuming that this breakthrough in weapons technology const ituted
a decisive shift in the world balance of power, Mao Tsetung
returned from the Moscow Conference of Communist and
Workers Parties in November 1957 apparently convinced that the
*This formulation, which implicitly acknowledges Peiping's
leading role in the Asian Communist movement and which accordingly
is anathema to Moscow, had not appeared in Vietnamese
commentary since the Geneva Conference of 1954