Egorova Nataliya Ivanovna
– D.Sci., historian, Chief Researcher, Deputy Head of the Department of XX century History, Institute of the World Hustory, Russian Academy of Sciences
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Between Unity and Dissent: Influence of the Beginning of the Vietnamese War on the Development of the Partisans for Peace Movement
This article, based on the analysis of declassified documents from Russian archives, is devoted to consideration of a dual influence of the beginning of the Vietnamese War on the further development of the Partisans for Peace Movement. On the one hand, it found its expression in strengthening of the splitting activities of the Chinese representatives within this Movement that began in the end of the 1950s. On the other hand, the widespread protest’s movement against US aggression in Vietnam had stimulated the search by the Partisans for Peace Movement more close cooperation with other anti-war movements and organizations of the world peaceful forces, in spite of the existing between them the ideological and political contradictions, which were typical for the Cold War era.Keywords: The Partisans of Peace Movement; the World Peace Council; the Soviet Peace Committee; the World Congress; the Soviet-Chinese contradictions; South Vietnam; North Vietnam; the USSR; the USA; the beginning of the war in Vietnam.
