INTRODUCTION: Page
NOTE ON "STRATEGIC" AND "NONSTRATEGIC" 1
CHAPTERS:
I. STALIN'S LOPSIDED ECONOMY 3
Emphasis on Heavy Industry
How Forced Industrialization Affects Trade
How the Kremlin Controls Trade
West Has Never Barred Peaceful Exports
Stalin's Last Gospel
II. THE NEW REGIME AND THE CONSUMER 11
Letting Off Pressure
The "New Economic Courses"
Malenkov's Big Announcement
Khrushchev and the Livestock Lag
Mikoyan Advertises the Program
Has Stalin Been Overruled?
III. THE KREMLIN'S RECENT TRADING ACTIVITIES 19
The New Trade Agreements
More Consumer Goods Ordered
A Shopping Spree for Ships
Most of All, They Want Hard Goods
Something Different in Soviet Exports
They Have Dug Up Manganese
The Emergence of Russian Oil
Gold Sales Expanded
Reaching Outside Europe
IV. WHAT'S BEHIND IT ALL 35
The Kremlin and Peace
A Mixture of Motives
Their Objectives Haven't Changed
Their Practices Haven't Changed
The Free World Is Strong
The Challenge
V. U. S. POLICY ON STRATEGIC TRADE CONTROLS 43
The Background
Basic Policy Reaffirmed
The New Direction of Policy
Reviewing the Control Lists
East-West Trade: Road to Peace
Trade Within the Free World
The China Trade Falls Off
They Play by Their Own Rules
United States Policy on the China Trade
VI. THE BATTLE ACT AND ECONOMIC DEFENSE 55
Battle Act Functions
The Money and the Manpower
Meshing the Gears
Improving the Machinery
The Termination-of-Aid Provision
Miscellaneous Activities
Summary of the Report