Sino-Soviet interaction

This study consists of an aggregate data set and a perception-interaction data set. The first part of the aggregate data contains seven measures of economic, demographic, military, and diplomatic national attributes of the Soviet Union and People's Republic of China by year for 1950-1967. The second part contains data on the trade of and visits by leaders of the USSR and China with 17 less developed countries by year 1959-1967. The perception data set consists of information obtained by computer content analysis utilizing Inquirer II. Selected official statements and newspaper content were analyzed for the period, 1950-1967. Soviet and Chinese perceptions of each other and of the United States are coded as follows: strong, weak, active, passive, negative, and threatening. Each of these perceptions is presented in the original and weighted forms. The interaction part contains measures of Sino-Soviet diplomatic, communications, and trade interactions by year 1950-1967. The later were supplied by the Social Sciences Department, Bendix Corporation.