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This is the first full-length study of relations among the communist states. The study explores the implications of the status of Yugoslavia and China, the significance of the Hungarian revolution and the position of Poland in the Soviet bloc, and clarifies the Khrushchev-Gomulka clash of 1956 and the complex role of Tito. Zbigniew Brzezinski emphasizes the role of ideology and power in the relations among the communist states, contrasting bloc relations and the unifying role of Soviet power under Stalin with the present situation. He suggests that conflicts of interest among the ruling elites will result either in ideological disputes or in weakening the central core of the ideology, leading to a gradual decline of unity among the Communist states.
The author, while on leave from his post as Professor and Director of the Research Institute on Communist Affairs, Columbia University, and serving on the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Council, has revised and updated his important study and added three new chapters on more recent developments. He gives particular attention to the Sino-Soviet dispute.
Contents
PART 1: THE FIRST PHASE: 1945-1947 The People's Democracy Institution and Ideological Diversity 1. The Political Background 2. Problems of Theory 3. Problems of Diversity PART 2: THE SECOND PHASE: 1947-1953 Stalinism Institutional and Ideological Uniformity 4. The Theory Reconsidered 5. Laying the Socialist Foundations 6. Stalinism: A Pattern for the Communist Interstate System 7. The Stalinist Legacy PART 3: THE THIRD PHASE: 1953-1956 From thaw to Deluge Institution and Ideological Diversity 8. The New Course: Stalinism Dissipated 9.The Impact of Yugoslavia 10. Hungary: The Test Case of National Communism 11. The Polish October: The Challenge of Domesticism PART 4: THE FOURTH PHASE: 1957-1959 The Communist "Commonwealth" Institutional Diversity and Ideological Uniformity 12. The Maoist effort to Reconstruct 13. Unity Through the Struggle Against Revisionism 14. The Polish Way to Socialism 15. Divergent Unity PART 5: THE FIFTH PHASE: 1960-1965 Communist Pluralism Institutional and Ideological Diversity 16. the Sino-Soviet Conflict 17. Satellites into Junior Allies 18. The Soviet Alliance System 19. Ideology and Power in Relations among Communist states Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
