Beilenson Laurence W. Power Through Subversion

Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1972. — 311 p.Mr. Beilenson was an adviser to Mr. Reagan in his early political career and wrote three books, ''The Treaty Trap,'' ''Power Through Subversion'' and ''Survival and Peace in the Nuclear Age.''.
Here for the first time is an authoritative history of the role subversion has played in shaping the destinies of nations. In these pages the author relates in fascinating detail the strategies used in the overthrow of governments from earliest times to the present, as well as the connection between internal dissidents and the foreign governments which have helped them.A Road Map for the Reader.
What Is The Same.
A Prophet of Power.
A Government Is A Sometime Thing.
Unpredictability of the Place and Time of Overthrow.
Unpredictability in the Revolts That Lenin Knew Best.
Lenin’s Acceptance of Unpredictability.
The Tactics of Traditional and Leninist Subversion.
The Strategic Characteristics of Traditional External Subversion.
The Jesuits, Philip II, and Elizabeth I.
The Vergennes Variation and the French Revolutionists.
What Is Different.
The Lenin Adaptation.
Lenin’s Heirs and Adventurous War.
Setbacks and Successes of the Lenin Adaptation.
The Chinese Clue.
North Vietnam, Cuba, and the Subversive Response Since.
An Appraisal of the Lenin Adaptation.
The Topical Question A Suggested American Adaptation.
Notes and References.