# Sino-Soviet split > So there is a certain sense that the Sino-Soviet split represented the living versus the decayed aspects of socialism, the vibrant sense of ‘tradition’ versus the dead one. > > – [['Imperialism runs deep': Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives]] > From the standpoint of the revolutionary left, a more specific impact was made by the Chinese Communist Party’s polemics against Nikita Khrushchev’s ‘revisionist’ notion of peaceful coexistence with capitalism during the Sino-Soviet split. > > – [['Imperialism runs deep': Interview with Robert Biel on British Maoism and its afterlives]]