This book provides a detailed, systematic, and factually reliable survey of the activities of communist parties and identifies main trends in communist affairs. It focuses on the themes of revolution, nationalism, and the communist's movement mythology.Foreword -- Preface -- Communists in World Politics -- The Peaceful Road to Socialism -- Communism and Nationalism in the Third World -- The Soviet Empire -- Communists in Power in Eastern Europe -- Communism and Great-Power Politics in the Far East and Southern Asia -- Communist Prospects in the Late 1970s -- Notes on SourcesThis book provides a detailed, systematic, and factually reliable survey of the activities of communist parties and identifies main trends in communist affairs. It focuses on the themes of revolution, nationalism, and the communist's movement mythology.USCopyright ? 1985 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University