The Soviet bloc, unity and conflict

The first phase 1945-1947

The political background

Problems of theory

Problems of diversity

The second phase 1947-1953

The theory reconsidered

Laying the socialist foundations

Stalinism: a pattern for the communist interstate system

The Stalinist legacy

The third phase 1953-1956

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 Maoist reconstruction of the center

Unity through the struggle against revisionism

The Polish way to socialism

Problems of the communist "commonwealth"

Ideology and power in relations among communist states.