| Summary: | The present volume, together with volume 8, completes the study of the Soviet Union in the middle 1920s under the title Socialism in One Country 1924-1926 ; these two books are devoted to foreign relations, the affairs of the Communist International being treated throughout as an integral part of these relations. It was an uneasy period, in which the détente with the capitalist world in the first years of NEP was wearing thin, and the confidence derived from intensive industrialization and planning still lay mainly in the future. This volume treats of relations with the West; volume 8 breaks new ground in the development of relations with the East, which for the first time now became a major factor in Soviet foreign policy. The chapters on China, Outer Mongolia and Japan, in particular, make use of materal hitherto unknown in English
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