Richard C Thornton

Biographic Data

ID1274077
NAMERichard C Thornton
GIVEN NAMESRichard C
FAMILY NAMEThornton
SIGNATURETHORNTON R C
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Washington University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS10
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX2

  • China

    Richard C ThorntonBOOKChina2019

    It is the purpose of this work to provide an integrated analytical framework that will serve as a guide to further study of the vast and complex subject of Chinese Communist politics. The outpouring of materials from U.S., Soviet, Chinese Communist, and Chinese Nationalist sources in recent years has greatly enriched our fund of knowledge about China. For the historian of Chinese politics the new data have provided answers to hitherto unresolved …

  • MacArthur's War

    Philip Zelikow, Stanley Weintraub et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2000Cited by: 1

  • Exit with Honor

    Richard C Thornton, Ronald Reagan et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1998

    Few presidents have sparked as much interest in recent years as Ronald Reagan, already the subject of a large number of biographies and specialized subjects. This biography, based on recent research into the Reagan archives and synthesis of the large memoir literature, explores the shaping of his values and beliefs during his childhood in the American heartland, his leadership of the American conservative movement, and his successful political ca…

  • The unfulfilled promise of declassification

    Richard C ThorntonARTICLEInternational Journal of…1998

  • Chinese-Russian Relations and the Struggle for Hegemony in Northeast Asia

    Richard C ThorntonARTICLEProblems of Post-Communism1995

    Since 1991 political and military cooperation between China and Russia has increased. But how does this détente between them serve each side’s goal of dominating Northeast Asia

  • From Reform to Revolution

    Richard C Thornton, Minxin BeiARTICLEPacific Affairs1995

  • The Nixon-Kissinger Years

    Robert D Schulzinger, Richard C ThorntonARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping America's Foreign Policy. By Richard C. Thornton. (New York: Paragon House, 1989. xxxii + 427 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert D. Schulzinger Robert D. Schulzinger University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1433, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078402 Published: 01 March 1991

  • Distant Connections

    Richard C ThorntonARTICLEAsian Affairs An American Review1984

    The four years of the Carter administration saw both the United States and the Soviet Union fully engaged in intense efforts at what might be termed from the strategist's point of view geopolitical position building. Triggered by an imminent shift in the strategic weapons balance, position building occurred across the entire landscape in both the eastern and western hemispheres and was accompanied by military conflicts as the process reached flas…

  • Russian Studies of China

    Richard C Thornton, E Stuart KirbyARTICLEThe American Historical Review1976

  • China

    Rene Goldman, Richard C ThorntonARTICLEPacific Affairs1976

  • Soviet Strategy and the Vietnam War

    Richard C ThorntonARTICLEAsian Affairs An American Review1974Cited by: 1

    (1974). Soviet Strategy and the Vietnam War. Asian Affairs: An American Review: Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 205-228

  • Sino-Soviet Dispute

    Richard L Walker, Oton Ambroz et al.ARTICLEThe Russian Review1973

  • The Structure of Communist Politics

    Open AccessRichard C ThorntonARTICLEWorld Politics1972Cited by: 2References: 3

    The past decade has witnessed a general advancement in comparative studies of communism. Yet, in comparing the conceptual development of the Soviet-East European and Chinese Communist fields, one is struck by the peculiarly arrested state of the Chinese side. By comparison, the “Kremlinologists” have produced a veritable storehouse of analytical tools with which they have contributed to the explanation of the nature and functioning of the Soviet …

  • The Comintern and the Chinese Communists, 1928-1931

    Y J Chih, Richard C ThorntonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1971

  • The Comintern and the Chinese Communists, 1928-1931

    O Edmund Clubb, Richard C ThorntonARTICLEThe American Historical Review1970

  • The Zambezi Papers of Richard Thornton

    J N L Baker, Edward C Tabler et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1964Cited by: 6

  • Recognition of Robert Frost

    Theodore Morrison, Richard C Thornton et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1938