During the early period of the rift, because Soviet Sinology had just gone through the uncritical honeymoon period, and China had long been an object of Soviet wooing, they didn't know quite how to respond and could only fall silent. Writing about China nearly disappeared and Sinological research fell silent.
雙方反目初期，由於蘇聯的漢學研究，正歷經述而不評的蜜月階段，中共又是蘇共一手拉拔長大，蘇聯一時間不知如何「反應」，只有靜觀其變，有關文章也消聲匿跡，中國研究陷入低潮。