The Sino-Soviet Split was a period of worsening diplomatic relations between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the People's Republic of China that arose from the Khrushchevite revisionist clique's takeover and subsequent decisions and legislation that gravitated towards social imperialism and at worst social fascism. The USSR deviated from the correct Marxist-Leninist line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin's terms as general secretary.