ABSTRACT
The earlier attitude of reliance on the proletariat and peasantry and hostility to the ‘reactionary’ bourgeois nationalist governments brought no dividends, and, apparently during 1955, it was decided to abandon it, at any rate temporarily. At the same time, the Soviet government seems to have made up its mind that segregation of the eastern republics is no longer a vital necessity, and that the considerable material progress which has been achieved there could be an important means of enhancing Soviet prestige in Eastern and particularly Muslim countries. The West is now witnessing Soviet endeavours to apply these two new principles in their dealings with independent Muslim countries not only in the Middle East but also in South Asia.
