"Stalinism in Crisis" looks at recent developments in the world's non-capitalist regimes. It consists of eight separate chapters written by experts in specific fields. Topics addressed include: analysis of Stalinist regimes worldwide; perestoika in the USSR; the relationship between the Soviet bureaucracy, the intelligentsia and the working class in Russia and the republics; developments in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria; China's attempts at economic reform; Stalinism in the Third World; the decline of the European communist parties and the prospects for the future; and the impact of the disintegration of the Societ bloc on international relations.