A New Page in the Development of the “World System of Socialism” or a Split in the World Communist Movement? Historical Analysis of the Meeting of Representatives of Communist and Workers' Parties on November 10 — December 1, 1960 in Moscow

The article analyzes the largest political and ideological meeting in Moscow in terms of the number of participants (81 party delegations from all over the world) on the basis of new archival documents of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The article analyzes both a huge layer of transcripts of twenty-two meetings and polemical materials exchanged between the delegations. The key intrigue is shown — the emerging split between representatives of the Communist Parties of China and Albania, on the one hand, and the CPSU and most other Communist parties, on the other. The tactics of Khrushchev and other heads of delegations in overcoming the split are analyzed. The final joint adoption of the Statement and the anti-war Appeal to the peoples of the whole world was the result of a compromise between the Soviet and Chinese delegations and, ultimately, a temporary victory for the CPSU, which prevented the radicalization of key documents and achieved a demonstration of the unity of the ranks of the world communist movement in 1960

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