Preface

Abstract

In an earlier volume concerned with analysing the Soviet view of war, peace and neutrality, I devoted some pages to explaining in detail precisely which of the many millions of the Soviet views available I had chosen to examine in my book, and precisely what were the reasons that had made me choose it. Since it is the same viewpoint that I shall be examining in this present volume, there seems no point in repeating all those paragraphs that I allotted to the matter in my first volume: it will be enough here if I summarise my conclusions. Those of my readers who are left unsatisfied by this summary have only to refer to the earlier book, and read the detailed explanation that is contained in it.¹ The rest, I will assume, can do without it.