Despite the unproportionately low level of Soviet economic assistance, Soviet influence in the Third World is quite considerable at present. Taking this fact as a starting point the following article examines the principles guiding relations between communist and developing countries.

Trade between the developing countries and Eastern Europe has been less subjected to analytical scrutiny than trade among other regions. This is partly because the share of this trade in world trade is relatively small, but also because economic information and data on this trade are scarce,...