The Soviet Union and China: Is War Inevitable?

Roger E. Kanet is currently on leave from the University of Kansas. He is the author of articles on Soviet and East European politics and editor of The Soviet Union and the Developing Nations (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming), editor of The Behavioral Revolution and Communist Studies (New York: Free Press, 1971), and co-editor (with Ivan Volgyes) of On the Road to Communism: Essays on Soviet Domestic and Foreign Politics (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1972). This article was written in part while he was a Joint Senior Fellow at the Research Institute on Communist Affairs and the Russian Institute of Columbia University.