Publisher's Synopsis
Little systematic research has been published either on the great changes in European Communism since Stalin's death or on the much more recent Sino-Soviet rift and its impact on the European Communist parties. Although the immediate occasion of this book is the relatively new factor of Sino-Soviet tension, the larger part of each chapter is devoted to internal developments within a particular country and its party. This book is the first of a two-volume study of European Communism and deals specifically with Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, and Italy. The second volume, to be published at a later date, will similarly examine East Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia.
