Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments IX
3. Contents XI
4. Foreword XIII
5. Introduction XVI
6. I. Marx and Engels on the World State 1
7. II. The World State as an Explicit Soviet Goal 25
8. III. The Influence of Russian Nationalism to 1934 50
9. IV. The Influence of Russian Nationalism since 1934 80
10. V. The Meaning of Socialism in One Country 129
11. VI. The Meaning of Peaceful Coexistence 164
12. VII. The Issue of Centralism versus Federalism in the Leninist Era 190
13. VIII. The Issue of Centralism versus Federalism in the Stalinist Era and After 239
14. IX. World State and World Language 264
15. X. The Role of War in Building the Soviet World State 285
16. XI. Way Stations to the Soviet World State 326
17. XII. Soviet Reactions to Supranational Plans from the Non-Soviet World 373
18. XIII. The World State of No State 426
19. XIV. The Response of the West 472
20. Principal Sources 489
21. Index 494