"First published as volume XI, number 4, 1971, of studies on the Soviet Union (new series)."
Includes index.
Bibliography: pages [649]-652.
The history of communist takeovers / Thomas D. Hammond -- The Bolshevik Revolution: prototype or myth? / John Keep -- The Bolshevik conquest of the Moslem borderlands / Alexandre Bennigsen -- Soviet Russia and the Red Revolution of 1918 in Finland / C. Jay Smith -- Attempting a revolution from without: Poland in 1920 / Warren Lerner -- The communist takeover of Outer Mongolia: model for Eastern Europe? / The absorption of Tuva / Robert A. Rupen -- The takeover that remained in limbo: the German experience, 1918-1923 / Werner T. Angress -- The attempted revolution in China: the first Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1924-1927 / Gottfried-Karl Kindermann -- The annexation of the Baltic states / Edgar Tomson -- Stalin's policies towards Eastern Europe, 1939-1948: the general picture / Malcolm Mackintosh -- The Yugoslav Revolution: the first of a new type / Paul Shoup -- Ingredients of the communist takeover in Albania / Stephen Peters -- The Greek communists tried three times -and failed / D. George Kousoulas -- The communist takeover of Rumania: a function of Soviet power / Stephen Fischer-Galati -- A revolution administered: the Sovietization of Bulgaria / Nissan Oren -- The communist takeover in Poland / Susanne S. Lotarski -- The partition of Germany and the neutralization of Austria / Hans W. Schoenberg -- The first two communist takeovers of Hungary: 1919 and 1948 / Paul Ignotus -- The Prague Coup of 1948: the elegant takeover / Pavel Tigrid -- Finland in 1948: the lesson of a crisis / Kevin Devlin -- The autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan and the Kurdish People's Republic: their rise and fall / Rouhollah K. Ramazani -- A preconceived formula for Sovietization: the communist takeover of North Korea / Dae-sook Suh -- Vietnam: from Bolshevism to people's war / Dennis J. Duncanson -- The model for revolutionary people's war: the communist takeover of China / Jürgen Domes -- The wages of ambiguity" the 1965 coup in Indonesia, its origins and meaning / Justus M. Van der Kroef -- Guatemala: an aborted communist takeover / Ronald M. Schneider -- Radicalization of a Latin-American state: the establishment of communism in Cuba / Boris Goldenberg -- The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 / Andrew Gyorgy -- The Prague spring and the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia / William E. Griffith -- The sources of communist political power in Kerala / Gerald Heeger -- A summing up / Thomas D. Hammond