Chapter One
  TURNING-POINT IN WORLD HISTORY
5 [introduction.]
5 1. A New Era Is Born
11 2. Impact of the October Revolution and Socialist Construction in the U.S.S.R. on World Events
20 3. The Socialist System and World Development
  Chapter Two
  PRINCIPAL TRENDS IN THE ECONOMIC COMPETITION BETWEEN SOCIALISM AND CAPITALISM
29 [introduction.]
29 1. Russia’s Economic Level Just Before the October Revolution
35 2. Start of Economic Competition with Capitalism
38 3. Lenin’s Plan for Building Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
42 4. The Great Patriotic War and Post-War Economic Growth
54 5. The Present Stage of the Economic Competition Between the Two Systems
59 6. Economic and Cultural Revolution in Russia’s Old Colonial Territories
  Chapter Three
  NEW ECONOMIC FEATURES OF MONOPOLY CAPITALISM
66 [introduction.]
66 1. Development of the Productive Forces and Sharpening of Capitalist Economic Contradictions
78 2. Stages and Principal Directions in the Development of State-Monopoly Capitalism
91 3. State-Monopoly Capitalism and Changes in the Reproduction Cycle
98 4. Uneven Economic Development and International State-Monopoly Organisations
  Chapter Four
  THE WORKING CLASS AND THE GENERAL CRISIS OF CAPITALISM
118 [introduction.]
118 1. The Working Class in Present-Day Bourgeois Society
124 2. Exploitation as a Law of Capitalism
141 3. Bourgeois Social Policies and the Working Class
153 4. The Working People’s Economic and Political Struggle
179 5. Unity of Democratic Forces
  Chapter Five
  SOCIALISM AND NATIONAL LIBERATION REVOLUTIONS
202 [introduction.]
209 1. The Role of the National Liberation Struggle • 2. The Consequences of Colonial Disintegration
212 3. Capitalism and the Developing Countries
221 4. Socialism and the Developing Countries
223 5. Prospects for the Liberation Movement
  Chapter Six
  THE SOVIET UNION IN WORLD AFFAIRS
242 [introduction.]
242 1. Crisis of Imperialist Foreign Policy
255 2. Relations Within the Socialist Community
265 3. Soviet Foreign Policy and Emergent Countries
277 4. The U.S.S.R.’s Struggle for Peaceful Coexistence
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