Introduction
Soviet scholars of international law as foot soldiers in the Cold War
Trial by word: the Gulag condemned
Soviet satellites shift allegiances: Hungary, Yugoslavia
The struggle for influence in postcolonial Africa and the Middle East: Algeria, Congo, Nigeria, Iraq
Southeast Asia and the rise of communist China: Tibet, Bangladesh, Cambodia
(Soviet) piggy in the middle: American liberal left vs radical right on US ratification of the Genocide Convention
Moscow taps the new left: the Vietnam antiwar movement, Black Panthers, and the American Indian movement
Soviet-Turkish relations and socialist Armenia
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict
An uncertain end to the Cold War and the reactivation of the Genocide Treaty
Conclusion.