The Meaning of the Change

Three Views on the Nature of Contemporary Communism

The West, immobilized in so many other respects, is still looking for a completely satisfactory explanation of the change in Moscow’s tactical line. Each time that line has switched, over the last forty years, the West has been eager to discover in the event some foreboding of final Communist failure. And so once more. Since the 20th Congress, the woods are full of ‘‘experts’’ who offer every conceivable theory on the alluring subject.