Part One
  EMERGENCE OF THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM
  Chapter I. • HISTORICAL PREREQUISITES FOR THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM
7 1. The Great October Socialist Revolution as the Basis of World Socialism
16 2. The Second World War and the Peoples’ Revolutionary Struggle
32 3. Postwar Peace Settlement. Democratic Development in Central and Southeast Europe
  Chapter II. • FORMATION OF THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM
59 1. Triumph of People’s Democracy in European Countries as a Major Stage in the Development of World Socialism
86 2. Alliance of Equal and Sovereign States. Treaties of Friendship and Mutual Assistance and Their Significance
100 3. Conversion of Socialism into a World System as a Radical Turn in International Development
  Chapter III. • RISE OF SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
110 1. A New Type of International Relations. Socialist Internationalism as the Basis of Relations Between Socialist Countries
131 2. Socialist Internationalism as a Motive Force of the World Socialist System
155 3. Community of Socialist Countries and Problems of Communist Construction
  Part Two
  MAIN STAGES IN THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM
  Chapter IV. • BUILDING THE FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIALISM IN THE PEOPLE’S DEMOCRACIES. STRENGTHENING CO-OPERATION OF SOCIALIST COUNTRIES (1950-1956)
169 1. Emergence of the Asian People’s Democracies and the World Socialist System
189 2. Consolidation of the Economic and Military-Political Alliance of the Socialist Countries
  Chapter V. • IMPROVEMENT IN ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CO-OPERATION OF THE USSR AND OTHER SOCIALIST STATES (1957-1960)
211 1. Consolidation of the Forces of the Socialist Countries
228 2. Further Improvement of Economic Co-operation
  Chapter VI. • THE WORLD SOCIALIST SYSTEM IN 1961-1970
233 1. New Forms of Economic Co-operation
252 2. Military and Political Co-operation. Struggle of the CPSU and Other Fraternal Parties for Socialist Unity
  Part Three
  SOCIALIST FOREIGN POLICY
  Chapter VII. • PRINCIPAL TRENDS IN SOCIALIST FOREIGN POLICY
273 1. Sources and Origins of Socialist Foreign Policy. Its Scientific Basis. Main Aims
291 2. Socialist Countries and the Capitalist World. Work of the Soviet Union and Other Socialist Countries for Peace and International Security
321 Chapter VIII. • SOCIALIST COUNTRIES AND YOUNG INDEPENDENT STATES
357 Chapter IX. • SOCIALIST FOREIGN POLICY AND THE WORLD IDEOLOGICAL STRUGGLE
387 CONCLUSION
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