CHEN Xianliang
(№.6,2012)
Abstract: In the 1920s, Lenin proposed the principle of peaceful coexistence, starting from the point of reinforcing the Soviet power and developing the socialist cause, according to the international political situation and the changed international class forces. After Khrushchev was in power, he took the principle further and deepened it as “three-peace theory”. Besides adopting a mild policy towards the West, he was gradually on terms of equality with the other socialist countries and stressed that every country developed on its own and with its own features. But, because the Soviet Union could not give up the great- nation chauvinism and demanded that the socialist camp should take a united action, it always regarded itself as a great power and encroached on the interests of other countries. Although Khrushchev vigorously stood for mitigating relations with the United States, he provoked a crisis for many times and had the relations of the two countries become worse time and again and made his
diplomatic practice contrary to his diplomatic concept. The cause for this mainly lies in his home-and-abroad colleagues’ suspicion about the “three-peace theory” and his foreign rivals’ uncoordination.
Key words: Khrushchev; Soviet Union; United States; mild policy; “three-peace theory”
