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Model or Ally? The Communist Powers and the Developing Countries

Richard Löwenthal
Reviewed by John C. Campbell
April 1977
Model or Ally? The Communist Powers and the Developing Countries
Richard Löwenthal
Oxford University Press
1977
400 pp.
$12.95
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This is a put-together book of Löwenthal's articles published over a 12-year period, but they are brought up to date and form a coherent whole illustrating his theme of the shift from largely ideological anti-imperialism to hegemonic counter-imperialism.

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