A Soviet chronology, 1917-1967, compiled by L. Foster. -- Fifty years that shook the world, by H. E. Salisbury. -- The way people live, by C. Curtis. -- The economic machinery, by H. E. Heinemann. -- Education: the preschool child, by F. M. Hechinger. -- Education: triumphs and doubts, by F. M. Hechinger. -- Literature: the right to write, by H. E. Salisbury.--Theater: the naked truth, by H. E. Salisbury. -- Art: a return to modernism, by H. Kramer. -- The world of music, by H. C. Schonberg. -- Fifty years of Soviet ballet, by C. Barnes. -- The resources of a nation, by T. Shabad. -- Building the Soviet society: housing and planning, by A. L. Huxtable. -- The death and rebirth of a science, by W. Sullivan. -- The Akademgorodok: a new look in Soviet science, by W. Sullivan. -- Keeping the Russians healthy and happy, by W. Sullivan. -- First into space, then the race, by J. N. Wilford. -- Moscow's military capabilites, by H. W. Baldwin. -- The sporting life, by R. Lipsyte. -- God and communism, by P. Grose. -- The Kremlin and the Jews, by P. Grose. -- Diplomacy: the indivisible peace, by H. E. Salisbury. -- About the contributors.