crisis; The Iron Curtain descends. -- Stalinization and imperial consolidation, 1947-1953: Institutionalizing Sovietization; The Berlin blockade; Titoism, the end of the Muscovite monolith; A new relationship with China; the Korean adventure; Stalin's policies in retrospect. -- The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: De-Stalinizing the empire; Courting Belgrade; Interregnum 1956-1968; Intervention in Czechoslovakia; Crisis in Poland; Institutionalizing Soviet hegemony. -- Soviet policy toward Western Europe: Moscow and the FRG; The courtship of France; The nordic sector; Iberia; Opposition to European unity ; CSCE; Deranging NATO. -- Moscow's Cold War in the Far East: The Sino-Soviet conflict, origins; Issues; The post-Mao situation; Soviet-Japanese relations; The USSR and the MPR; The Korean triangle; The balance sheet. -- Moscow's forward policy in the Third World: Lenin's theory of imperialism lives on; Strategic impetus for the forward policy; Southern Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America. -- The Soviet Union and the Middle East: Moscow's southern tier: Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan; The Arab-Israeli sector; The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula; The North AFrican littoral. -- The Military dimensions of Soviet foreign policy: From strategic inferiority to SALT I; The payfoo in SALT; The buildup of conventional forces; Arms control measures; Trends. -- Soviet policy and the world communist movement: De-Stalinization and polycentrism; Authority versus autonomy; Eurocommunism; The Japanese variant; The Kremlin's dilemmas. -- Soviet diplomacy in the United Nations: The early years; Decolonization; Peacekeeping; Global issues; Organizaitonal issues; Sino-Soviet interaction; Persisting motifs. Sources of Soviet policy: perspectives; Underlying assumptions; Speculations. -- Soviet-American relations, the elusive accommodation: Moscow's quest for peaceful coexistence and detente; Ideological struggle: systemic or sideshow? The new Cold War; Dilemmas of an imperial policy; Whither detente.