From underdevelopment to affluence : Western, Soviet, and Chinese views / Edited by Harry G. Shaffer and Jan S. Prybyla.

This books appendix includes case studies on developing countries, including Japan, India, Israel, Egypt, Yugoslavia.

Chapter 1: Population pressure and underdevelopment: Western and Soviet views -- 1. The population explosion and the underdeveloped countries: past effects and prospective dangers. A Western view / Roy D. Laird -- 2. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow: a thirst for perspective. A Soviet view / Vladimir Keller -- Overpopulation does not threaten our planet. A Soviet view / Stanislav Strumilin -- Rapid economic development, profound social transformation, and a scientific population policy. A Soviet view / Arab Ogly -- Population problems in developing countries. A Soviet view / V. Guzevaty.

Chapter 2: From underdevelopment to affluence: Western views -- 1. The struggle for economic development in our time / Robert L. Heilbroner -- 2. Rich lands, poor lands, and the widening gap / Gunnar Myrdal -- 3. What is the Third World? / Irving Louis Horowitz -- 4. Stages of economic growth / W. W. Rostow -- 5. There are no simple answers / Robert E. Baldwin -- 6. Bread and freedom: the pluralistic approach / William McCord.

Chapter 3: From underdevelopment to affluence: Soviet views -- 1. The changing Soviet perception of the development process in underdeveloped countries. A Western non-Marxist analysis / Donald S. Carlisle -- 2. The recent Soviet reassessment of developments in the Third World. A Western non-Marxist analysis / Roger E. Kanet -- 3. The breakup of the colonial system / K. Brutents -- 4. What disarmament will give to developing countries / K. Ivanov and B. Batsanov -- 5. They will not choose the capitalist path / O. V. Kuusinen and others 6. The non-capitalist way of development / V. Yegorov and I. Pronichev -- 7. Vital problems of non-capitalist development / R. Avakov and others -- 8. The transition to socialism / R. Avakov, I. Pronichev, and others -- 9. The developing countries can count on aid and assistance from the socialist camp / A. Tkachenko

Chapter 4: From underdevelopment to affluence: Chinese views -- 1. China's prescription for economic growth -- 2. What are the fundamental contradictions in the contemporary world? -- 3. Contradictions in the contemporary world are concentrated in Asia, Africa, and Latin America: the storm centers of world revolution -- 4. First ask for peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America: national-democratic struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonialism -- 5. The Chinese revolution points the way to the emancipation of other Asian as well as African and Latin American countries -- 6. Liberation from colonialism (national democratic revolution) on the Chinese model means people's liberation wars waged in the countryside by peasant guerilla armies under the leadership of the communists -- 7. The economic program of the national democratic (new democratic) revolution -- 8. The peasant question and agricultural development are basic to socialist construction once the national democratic revolution is completed -- 9. The people's communes are China's contribution to the question of transition from collective ownership to ownership by the whole people - an important step in the direction of full communism -- 10. Self-reliance based on correct thought is the way to national liberation and socialist development -- 11. Underdeveloped countries and foreign economic aid from capitalist countries -- 12. Even during the period of socialist construction class struggles continue -- 13. Politics must be put in command of economics and all other work -- 14. Correct leadership is important at all stages of the revolution -- 15. Those who oppose China's prescription for national liberation and socialist development are lackeys of imperialism. All opposition must be silenced / Jan S. Prybyla -- Appendix to chapter 4 -- 1. China: a revolution for export -- 2. War and revolution / Paul M. Sweezy and Leo Huberman.

"The first chapter of the book is devoted to an analysis of the crucial problem of overpopulation, often referred to in common parlance as "the population explosion." The views of a Western scholar are confronted with those of Soviet social scientists who, interestingly enough, are not in complete agreement on the issue. Chapter II consists of representative (and somewhat divergent) Western endeavors to outline the laborious path from underdevelopment to affluence. Chapters III and IV reflect respectively the official Soviet and Chinese views on the subject." - Preface

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