Third World in Soviet Perspective / / Thomas Perry Thorton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Thorton, Thomas Perry,
• MitwirkendeR: Avakov, R.,; Fridman, L. A.,; Gordon, L. A.,; Grechev, M.,; Guber, A. A.,; Mikhaylov, S. S.,; Mirskiy, G.,; Pankin, M.,; Potekhin, I. I.,; Shul'govskiy, A.,; Stepanov, L.,; Ul'yanovskiy, R. A.,; Yudin, Yu. A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1964
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2390
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)

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.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Independence -- 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 -- Abbreviations Used in the References -- Bibliographical Note -- Biographical Information About the Contributors -- Index