Isaac Deutscher. Russia, China, and the West.

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 – The Fall of Beria

BEFORE THE TRIAL

BERIA IS SHOT

2 – The Development of Soviet Foreign Policy in 1954

SOVIET POLICY TOWARDS GERMANY A YEAR AFTER STALIN

THE GENEVA CONFERENCE ON THE FAR EAST

A NEW COURSE IN MOSCOW: RUSSIA AND CHINA

A NEW COURSE IN MOSCOW: CHANGES IN EASTERN EUROPE

3 – The Fall of Malenkov

THE ISSUES BEHIND MALENKOV’S RESIGNATION

THE RISE OF THE MILITARY

THE ROLES OF KHRUSHCHEV AND BULGANIN

4 – The Foreign Policy of Malenkov’s Successors

THE RETREAT FROM MONOLITHISM: KHRUSHCHEV IN BELGRADE

STATUS QUO IN GERMANY

5 – The Twentieth Congress

THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY

FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS

THE U.S.S.R. AFTER THE TWENTIETH CONGRESS

STALIN AND THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP

MOLOTOV RESIGNS

6 – Crisis in the Soviet Bloc

THE POLISH AND HUNGARIAN REVOLTS

THE CAUSES OF THE CRISIS IN EASTERN EUROPE

SHEPILOV’S EXIT

MALENKOV RETURNS TO THE ATTACK

7 – Mao and the Hundred Flowers Campaign

8 – Khrushchev Gains the Ascendancy

KHRUSHCHEV’S ECONOMIC REFORM

THE ANTI-PARTY GROUP

KHRUSHCHEV, MALENKOV, AND THE STALINIST PAST

BONAPARTISM IN THE SOVIET UNION

KHRUSHCHEV BECOMES PRIME MINISTER

9 – Khrushchev on the Defensive

THE EXECUTION OF IMRE NAGY

MAO ABANDONS THE HUNDRED FLOWERS CAMPAIGN

KHRUSHCHEV’S DOMESTIC OPPOSITION

THE COLLAPSE OF KHRUSHCHEV’S DIPLOMACY

CHINA’S PRESSURE ON MOSCOW

10 – From the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Congress

11 – Khrushchev’s Diplomatic Initiatives

THE SOVIET PERSPECTIVE IN GERMANY

KHRUSHCHEV GOES TO WASHINGTON

RUSSIA AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

THE U-2 INCIDENT

THE COLLAPSE OF THE SUMMIT

12 – The Deterioration of Sino-Soviet Relations

THE BUCHAREST CONGRESS

ALGERIA AND THE SINO-SOVIET DISPUTE

THE CONFERENCE OF THE EIGHTY-ONE PARTIES

CUBA AND INDO-CHINA

THE SINO-SOVIET TRUCE BREAKS DOWN

13 – The Twenty-second Congress and the End of the First Decade After Stalin

THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS AND THE CULT OF KHRUSHCHEV

THE IMPACT OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS ON THE U.S.S.R.

THE CRISIS OVER THE CUBAN MISSILES

THE RECORD OF 1962

THE SOVIET UNION ENTERS THE SECOND DECADE AFTER STALIN

14 – Khrushchev’s Troubles Increase

THE COLLAPSE OF SINO-SOVIET TALKS

BLACK DUST STORMS OVER RUSSIA

THE RUSSO-CHINESE SCHISM DEEPENS

KHRUSHCHEV AT SEVENTY

THE RUSSO-ROMANIAN QUARREL

THE TONKING GULF INCIDENT

15 – The Fall of Khrushchev

THE END OF THE KHRUSHCHEV INTERREGNUM

THE CONSEQUENCES OF KHRUSHCHEV’S FALL

THE POLITICS OF POST-KHRUSHCHEVITE RUSSIA

16 – The Policies of Brezhnev and Kosygin

KOSYGIN’S ECONOMIC COUNTER-REFORM

THE U.S.S.R. BETWEEN THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS

SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY IN 1965

THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS: THE CRYPTO-STALINISTS RAISE THEIR HEADS

THE TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS: THE SHADOW OF VIETNAM

17 – The Great Cultural Revolution

Chronology of Events