Introduction
Political and social life
Economic life
Cultural trends
Foreign policy.

The Soviet Union between war and Cold War / Frederick C. Barghoorn
Political, administrative, and judicial structure in the U.S.S.R. since the war / John N. Hazard
Postwar role of the Communist Party / Merle Fainsod
Family and church in the postwar U.S.S.R. / Alex Inkeles
Postwar Soviet ideology / Percy E. Corbett
Postwar economic reconstruction and development in the U.S.S.R. / Abram Bergson, James Horton Blackman, and Alexander Erlich
Soviet labor policy 1945-1949 / Harry Schwartz
Russia's trade in the postwar years / Alexander Gerschenkron
Soviet prose after the war / Marc Slonim
Recent trends in Soviet education / Nicolas Hans
Postwar historical research in the Soviet Union / Sergius Yakobson
Scientific research in the U.S.S.R.: / Gerald Oster and S. Lefschetz
Soviet policy in the United Nations / C. Dale Fuller
Soviet policy in Eastern Europe / C. E. Black
Soviet policy in Germany / Franz L. Neumann
The Soviet Union and the Middle East / Harry N. Howard
Soviet Policies in Asia / Harold H. Fisher
Soviet-American relations since the war / Philip E. Mosely.