The Soviet Bloc

Unity and Conflict, Revised and Enlarged Edition

By: Zbigniew K. Brzezinski

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Paperback | 1 January 1967 | Edition Number 2

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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.

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This distinguished book analyzes the origins, evolution, and fragmentation of the once unified Communist world. Though the focus is still on relations between the Soviet Union and the East European countries, there is an expanded treatment of the Sino-Soviet dispute. With skill and insight, Brzezinski traces the transformation of the Soviet bloc into a more complicated alliance system, in which Moscow plays a leading, but no longer unchallenged, role. This is a masterful account of the interaction between ideology and power among the Communist states. Current History Brzezinski's definitive work on the rise and dissolution of the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe... is compellingly lucid, unfolds effortlessly, and remains happily unencumbered by ]argon. The first edition ... was one of the significant pioneering efforts in systematizing the analysis of Communism in Eastern Europe, yet it had all the hallmarks of authorship by a profoundly political thinker. The present Revised and Enlarged Edition, more than ever, uses a political approach toward essentially political phenomena in a part of the world which traditionally thinks in political terms... reveals an encyclopaedic grasp of contemporary developments. The New Leader An original and incisive analysis of the dynamics of leadership in the Communist camp and of the national factors that condition this leadership. American Historical Review

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Political Ideologies & Movements Sociology & Anthropology History Regional & National History European History

The First Phase: 1945-1947 The People's Democracy Institution and Ideological Diversity
The Political Background
Problems of Theory
Problems of Diversity
The Second Phase: 1947-1953 Stalinism Institutional and Ideological Uniformity
The Theory Reconsidered
Laying the Socialist Foundations
Stalinism: A Pattern for the Communist Interstate System
The Stalinist Legacy
The Third Phase: 1953-1956 From thaw to Deluge Institution and Ideological Diversity
The New Course: Stalinism Dissipated
The Impact of Yugoslavia
Hungary: The Test Case of National Communism
The Polish October: The Challenge of Domesticism
The Fourth Phase: 1957-1959 The Communist "Commonwealth" Institutional Diversity and Ideological Uniformity
The Maoist effort to Reconstruct13. Unity Through the Struggle Against Revisionism
The Polish Way to Socialism
Divergent Unity
The Fifth Phase: 1960-1965 Communist Pluralism Institutional and Ideological Diversity
the Sino-Soviet Conflict
Satellites into Junior Allies
The Soviet Alliance System
Ideology and Power in Relations among Communist states
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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The Soviet Bloc

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