The second volume deals in absorbing detail with the frustration of the revolution in France, Italy, and elsewhere, the forms taken by the revolution in Eastern Europe, the Yugoslav breakaway, the Soviet Union and the Cold War, the Chinese Revolution, and the new world balance of power. The author is completing a third volume dealing with developments following the death of Stalin.
Fernando Claudín Pontes was a Spanish communist ideologist and historian best known for his two volume study The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform.