- Part 1. The First Phase: 1945-1947
- The People’s Democracy
- Institutional and Ideological Diversity
- 1. The Political Background
- 2. Problems of Theory
- 3. Problems of Diversity
- Part 2. The Second Phase: 1947-1953
- Stalinism
- Institutional and Ideological Uniformity
- 4. The Theory Reconsidered
- 5. Laying the Socialist Foundations
- 6. Stalinism: A Pattern for the Communist Interstate System
- 7. The Stalinist Legacy
- Part 3. The Third Phase: 1953-1956
- From Thaw to Deluge
- Institutional and Ideological Diversity
- 8. The New Course: Stalinism Dissipated
- 9.The Impact of Yugoslavia
- 10. Hungary: The Test Case of National Communism
- 11. The Polish October: The Challenge of Domesticism
- Part 4. The Fourth Phase: 1957-1959
- The Communist “Commonwealth”
- Institutional Diversity and Ideological Uniformity
- 12. The Maoist Effort to Reconstruct
- 13. Unity Through the Struggle Against Revisionism
- 14. The Polish Way to Socialism
- 15. Divergent Unity
- Part 5. The Fifth Phase: 1960-1965
- Communist Pluralism
- Institutional and Ideological Diversity
- 16. The Sino-Soviet Conflict
- 17. Satellites into Junior Allies
- 18. The Soviet Alliance System
- 19. Ideology and Power in Relations among Communist States
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index