Third World in Soviet Perspective

✍ Scribed by Thomas Perry Thorton

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 377
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 2390
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Third World in Soviet Perspective consists of translations of a representative selection of essays on numerous aspects of the developing areas by prominent and promising Soviet scholars. They deal with Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and range over such subjects as economic development, class relationships, political forces, and agrarian reform, with some discussion of more general problems of Soviet research.

Originally published in 1964.

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✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contents
Introduction
1. Stalin's Theory of Colonial Revolution and the National Liberation Movement in Tropical and South Africa
2. The National Liberation Movement of the Peoples Against Imperialism (Fundamentals of Marxism- Leninism, Excerpts from Chapter 16)
3. Introduction to Indonesia
4. The 20th Congress of the CPSU and Problems of Studying the Contemporary East
5. The Study of Latin America in the Soviet Union
6. The Problem of Economic Independenc
7. Some of the Problems of the Economic Independence of the Countries of Latin America
8. The Position of the Southeast Asian Countries in the World Capitalist Market
9. Peculiarities in the Composition and Structure of the Working Class in the Economically Underdeveloped Countries of Asia and Africa (The Example of India and the UAR)
10. Agrarian Reforms in the Countries of the Near and Middle East, India, and Southeast Asia
11. Land Relationships in the Countries of Africa
12. Some Problems of the Establishment of National States in the Independent African Countries
13. Class Structure in the Underdeveloped Countries
14. Imperialism and the Ideology of National Reformism in Latin America, by A. Shul'govskiy
Abbreviations Used in the References
Bibliographical Note
I. Russian-Language Sources
II. Material Available in English Translation
III. Surveys of Soviet Orientology
IV. Symposia
Biographical Information About the Contributors
Index