Stalin’s Satellites in Europe

Preface

Part I
The economy of the Russian satellites

I. Changes in property: the land reform

II. Changes in property relations in industry, transport, banking insurance and trade

III. Scarcity of capital

IV. Russia and the economy of the satellite states

V. The economic plans of the satellites

VI. The socio-economic relations in the satellites

Part II
Political life in the Russian satellites

I. The initial Soviet intervention: Bulgaria, Rumania, Hungary

II. Poland: The Warsaw Uprising

III. Yugoslavia: the exceptional case

IV. The Communists take control of police and army

V. Liquidation of the peasant parties

VI. Liquidation of the socialist parties

VII. Slav against Teuton

VIII. Other nationalistic conflicts

IX. Gleichschaltung of the churches

X. “People’s Democracies” – dictatorship over the people

Part III
The rebellious satellite

I. The Cominform countries launch an attack on Yugoslavia

II. On the motives of the Tito-Stalin conflict

III. The Titoists expose Stalinism

IV. Titoism is not a basic negation of Stalinism

V. The epidemic of Titoism in Eastern Europe

VI. Anti-Titoist show trials

VII. “Titoists” before Tito

VIII. Stalin’s empire has no future

Acknowledgments

Permission has been granted to quote from:

O.S. Morgan, Editor, Agricultural Systems of Middle Europe, MacMillan & Co., New York, 1933.

D.J. Dallin & B.I. Nicolaevsky, Forced Labor in Soviet Russia, Yale University Press, New Haven, and Hollis & Carter, London, 1948.

R.P. Casey, Religion in Russia, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1946.