ABSTRACT
When the author entitle it The Soviet View of War, Peace and Neutrality, the view describes must necessarily be selective. The Soviet attitude towards China in the period between the wars was very largely determined by ideological considerations. It is, in fact, an extremely selective view; for it is that of no more than the twenty or thirty people who are today the rulers of the Soviet Union, and of those who have been its rulers in years gone by. War, that is to say, has been analysed by the Party; its nature has been dissected, its uses explained; and the appropriate Soviet reference books will tell one what sort of wars are acceptable to the Party leadership, and what are not.
