Adins, SebastienRooney, Mildred2019-11-262019-11-262019urn:isbn:978-9972-671-62-3http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/168833In 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.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/pe/Relaciones peruano-soviéticasRevolución cubanaPolítica exterior peruanaPolítica exterior rusaSiglo XXIinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperhttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.05https://doi.org/10.18800/978-9972-671-62-3