The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition (Center for International Affairs)

When this book was first published in 1960 The New York Times commented: "[Mr.] Brzezinski...is uniquely qualified to sift the scattered and often seemingly contradictory data on this subject...the volume is marked by unusual insight, richness of information, and stimulating thought." Mr. Brzezinski who is on leave from his post as Professor and Director of the Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University serving on State Department's Policy Planning Council, has revised and updated his important study wherever necessary and added three new chapters on recent developments. He gives particular attention to the Sino-Soviet dispute. Frontmatter The First Phase: 1945‐1947: THE PEOPLE'S DEMOCRACY‐INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 1 THE POLITICAL BACKGROUND (page 3) 2 PROBLEMS OF THEORY (page 22) 3 PROBLEMS OF DIVERSITY (page 41) The Second Phase: 1947‐1953: STALINISM‐INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL UNIFORMITY 4 THE THEORY RECONSIDERED (page 67) 5 LAYING THE SOCIALIST FOUNDATIONS (page 84) 6 STALINISM: A PATTERN FOR THE COMMUNIST INTERSTATE SYSTEM (page 105) 7 THE STALINIST LEGACY (page 139) The Third Phase: 1953‐1956: FROM THAW TO DELUGE‐INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 8 THE NEW COURSE: STALINISM DISSIPATED (page 155) 9 THE IMPACT OF YUGOSLAVIA (page 185) 10 HUNGARY: THE TEST CASE OF NATIONAL COMMUNISM (page 210) 11 THE POLISH OCTOBER: THE CHALLENGE OF DOMESTICISM (page 239) The Fourth Phase: 1957‐1959: THE COMMUNIST "COMMONWEALTH"‐INSTITUTIONAL DIVERSITY AND IDEOLOGICAL UNIFORMITY 12 THE MAOIST EFFORT TO RECONSTRUCT A CENTER (page 271) 13 UNITY THROUGH THE STRUGGLE AGAINST REVISIONISM (page 309) 14 THE POLISH WAY TO SOCIALISM (page 338) 15 DIVERGENT UNITY (page 367) The Fifth Phase: 1960‐1965: COMMUNIST PLURALISM ‐INSTITUTIONAL AND IDEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 16 THE SINO‐SOVIET CONFLICT (page 397) 17 SATELLITES INTO JUNIOR ALLIES (page 433) 18 THE SOVIET ALLIANCE SYSTEM (page 456) 19 IDEOLOGY AND POWER IN RELATIONS AMONG COMMUNIST STATES (page 485) APPENDIX (page 515) NOTES (page 517) BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 559) INDEX (page 577)