The relations between Peru and The Russian Federation: revision and interpretation. From an international relations perspective

• Autores: Adins, Sebastien, Rooney, Mildred
• Formato: documento de trabajo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: PUCP-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.pucp.edu.pe:20.500.14657/168833
• Enlace del recurso: http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/168833; https://doi.org/10.18800/978-9972-671-62-3
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Relaciones peruano-soviéticas; Revolución cubana; Política exterior peruana; Política exterior rusa; Siglo XXI; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.05

In February 2019, Peru and the Russian Federation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations at Embassy lev-el. However, the first diplomatic contact between the two countries dates back to 1863, with Peru being one of the first states in the region to es-tablish a relationship with the then Russian Empire. Once the Soviet Union was established in 1917, interaction with Latin America was generally scarce for several reasons: geographical distance (and proximity to the hemispheric hegemon, the United States), the fer-vent anti-communist stance of the elites in the region and, in the eyes of the CPSU, the supposed low revolutionary potential of Latin America. On-ly with the inauguration of Khrushchev’s “peaceful coexistence” policy and, even more, the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Moscow began to exhibit a, clearly pragmatic, rapprochement to the region, considering its poten-tial as an economic partner (basically, buyer of Soviet machinery and weapons) and a playground to “balance” Washington and underset its superpower status.