Isolation -- Depression Stalinism -- Postwar: the Bretton Woods Cold War -- Aspiration -- Restoration: resuming the relationship with capitalism -- Maelstrom: the decolonization vortex -- Integration -- Conformity and profit: the Soviet economy under American hegemony -- Poor relations: the...

From the preface: This volume, like its predecessors "NATO after thirty years" (1981) and "The Warsaw Pact: political purpose and military means" (1982) , grew out of a conference held at Kent (Ohio, USA). The authors of the essays in this collection are concerned with superpower and allied...