ABSTRACT
Theories should be tested against facts. The last stage in author's enquiry must therefore be to test the theories outlined in the preceding chapters against the facts of Soviet history; and such a testing consequently forms the substance of this final chapter. The chapter on the Soviet view of neutrality indicated that, in the Marxist view, there was no such thing as neutrality, properly speaking; and that therefore the uses made of neutrality by Soviet diplomacy were a policy of the second best, or of even the third best, operating from a position of weakness with regard to the area concerned. If, now, one starts to compare this theory with the realities of Soviet history, one finds a startling correlation between theory and practice. That being so, one must now turn to consider the subject of peace, and see whether one can detect a similar correspondence there between Soviet theory and practice.
