Includes bibliographical references and index.

A guide to Marxism / Peter H. Vigor -- Leninism / Theodore H. Von Laue -- The Russian legacy / Herbert McCloskey and John E. Turner -- The Chinese pattern / John K. Fairbank -- The Yugoslav setting / Gary K. Bertsch and M. George Zaninovich -- The emergence of Russian communism / Michael T. Florinsky -- The rise of Chinese communism / Michael Gasster -- Tito and the Yugoslav partisan movement / N.J. Jones -- The functions of ideology in the Soviet political system / Alfred G. Meyer -- Changes in Chinese political ideology / Han Shik Park -- Chinese and Leninist components in the personality of Mao Tse-yung / Stuart R. Schram -- Marxism Belgrade style / Dennison I. Rusinow -- The problem of Soviet leadership / Robert G. Wesson -- The structure of Chinese politics / Richard C. Thornton -- Yugoslavia : the case for a loyal opposition under communism / Barbara Jancar -- Group influence and the policy process in the Soviet Union / Joel J. Schwarz and William R. Keech -- Occupational groups and the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Michel Oksenberg -- The relevance of Yugoslav self-management / Bogdan Denitch -- Political socialization of Soviet youth and the building of communism / Charles D. Cary -- The new socialist man / Theodore Hsi-en Chen -- Socialization for self-management in Yugoslav schools / Susan Lampland Woodward -- Soviet economic perspectives : toward a new growth model / Abram Bergson -- China : an economic reappraisal / Dwight H. Perkins -- Which direction for Yugoslavia's economy / Deborah D. Milenkovitch -- Moscow's options in a changing world / Vernon V. Aspaturian -- China and the world / A. Doak Barnett -- Yugoslavia and foreign affairs / Robin Alison Remington.