Soviet-Third World Relations in a Capitalist World: The Political Economy of Broken Promises

Part 1 Approaches to understanding the Soviet-third world connection: Marxism; the Third World and the Soviet perspective; the shift in Marx's view; groping for an anti-capitalist strategy on the world scale; the second international and colonialism; the Third International; the Bolsheviks and the colonial question; the Leninist legacy; internationalism and the Soviet State; the post World War II period; end of the Stalin period; new Soviet assertiveness; the natural ally; the Leninist mutation; the concept of international dictatorship; the doctrine of limited sovereignty; world market discussion; isolation or integration?; great expectations; dispute over Socialism in one country; a modus vivendi develops; the post-war economy; a Socialist "world market"; Socialist "market" rejected; the desire for integration; China's experience and Korean self-reliance; back to where we came from?; socialism in one country and capital accumulation - constitution of the party and State; "Socialist accumulation" and the peasantry; industry and the workers; the "class-in-the process-of-becoming"; the organized consensus; organizing inequality; geographical stratification; Soviet development strategy; the military-industrial complex; the question of outdated production relations; the crisis; the Soviet experience in perspective; restructuring Soviet society. Part 2 Soviet-third world relations in the world system: the gradual realignment of global forces; the image; the natural ally; the evolution of Soviet-third world relations - the first expansive period; financial conditions of Soviet credits; the period 1965 to 1975; the general evolution of trade; the question of aid; technical assistance; economic pragmatism and new "militancy"; the paradigm shift in development theory; the collision with Third World demands; the law of the sea; the new international economic order; politics before economics; the pattern of exchange; the problem of world market prices; exploiting a superior bargaining position; a practice in search of justification; arms trade and military aid - the first experience; military aid and economic expediency; the creation of new forms of dependence; export of military facilities; support for military regimes; the internal link; the projection of naval power; East-West competition seen from the South; internationalization of capital and the USSR. (Part contents)