Book notices

Bernard Lewis Faber (ed.), The Social Structure of Eastern Europe. Transition and Process in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Yugoslavia. New York: Praeger, 1976. xv+423 pp.

D. M. Gvishiani et al. (eds.), The Scientific Intelligentsia in the USSR: structure and dynamics of personnel. Moscow. Progress Publishers, 1976. 247 pp. £1.50.

R. E. F. Smith (ed.), The Russian Peasant 1920 and 1984. London: Frank Cass, 1977. 120 pp. £8.50.

Vladimír Horský, Prag 1968: Systemveränderung und Systemverteídigung. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag, and München: Kösel‐Verlag, 1975. 534 pp.

Yuri Brokhin, Hustling on Gorky Street: Sex and Crime in Russia Today. Foreword by Andrew R. Macandrew. London: W. H. Allen, 1975. 214 pp. £3.95.

P. Litvinov et al. (eds.), Samososnanie: sbornik statei. New York: Khronika Press, 1976. 320 pp.

Roy A. Medvedev (ed.), Dvadtsatyi vek. No. 2. London: Twentieth Century Digest Publications, 1977. 256 pp. £4.00.

E. Shtendera and P. Potichnyj (eds.), Litopys Ukrayin'skoyi Povstans'koyi Armiyi, tom 1. Volyn’ i Polissya, Nimets'ka okupatsiya. Knyha persha (English title‐page: ‘Litopys UPA, Volume 1. Volyn’ and Polissya. German Occupation. Book One'). Toronto: Litopys UPA, 1976. 255 pp.

C. M. Nowak, Czechoslovak‐Polish Relations 1918–1939: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1976. 220 pp. $10.00.

Harry G. Shaffer, Perìodìcals on the Socialist Countries and on Marxism: A New Annotated Index of English‐Language Publications. New York: Praeger, 1977. xiii+ 133 pp. £12.20.     

Reviews

Michael Mandelbaum (ed.), Post‐Communism: Four Perspectives. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1996, vi + 208 pp.

Raymond Taras, Consolidating Democracy in Poland. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, xii + 276 pp., £44.50 h/b, £13.50 p/b.

Jane Leftwich Curry & Luba Fajfer (eds), Poland's Permanent Revolution: People vs. Elites, 1956–1990. Lanham: American University Press, 1995, x + 294 pp., $64.50 h/b, $27.50 p/b.

Ben Slay (ed.), De‐monopolization and Competition Policy in Post‐Communist Economies. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, ix + 245 pp.

Éva Ehrlich & Gabor Révész, Hungary and its Prospects, 1985–2005. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1995, 166 pp., $29.00.

Simon Clarke (ed.), Conflict and Change in the Russian Industrial Enterprise. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996, ix + 298 pp., £45.00.

Maurice Ernst, Michael Alexeev & Paul Marer, Transforming the Core: Restructuring Industrial Enterprises in Russia and Central Europe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, xx + 315 pp., £13.50.

John S. Strong & John R. Meyer, Moving to Market: Restructuring Transport in the Former Soviet Union. London: Harvard University Press, 1996, ix + 237 pp, £19.95.

Raymond J. Struyk (ed.), Economic Restructuring of the Former Soviet Bloc. The Case of Housing. Washington: The Urban Institute Press, 1996, xviii + 373 pp., £51.95 h/b, £22.95 p/b.

Istvan Pogany (ed.), Human Rights in Eastern Europe. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995, xv + 255 pp., £39.95.

Lucjan Dobroszycki & Jeffrey S. Gurock (eds), The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi‐Occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941–1945. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1993, xii + 260 pp., $59.95 h/b, $24.95 p/b.

Robert Bideleux & Richard Taylor (eds), European Integration and Disintegration: East and West. London and New York: Routledge, 1996, xii + 298 pp., £45.00 h/b, £13.99 p/b.

F. Stephen Larrabee (ed.), The Volatile Powder Keg: Balkan Security after the Cold War. Washington, DC: The American University Press, 1994, xxviii + 320 pp., $27.50.

John F. Wright, Suzanne Goldenberg & Richard Schofield (eds), Transcaucasian Boundaries. London: UCL Press, 1996, vii + 237 pp.

Juris Dreifelds, Latvia in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996, ix + 214 pp., £40.00 h/b, £14.95 p/b.

Alfred Erich Senn, Gorbachev's Failure in Lithuania. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995, xx + 188 pp., $39.95.

Neil Melvin, Russians beyond Russia: The Politics of National Identity. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1995, vi + 170 pp., £11.99.

Kathleen E. Smith, Remembering Stalin's Victims. Popular Memory and the End of the USSR. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, xv + 220 pp., £23.50.

Martin McCauley, Stalin and Stalinism, 2nd edn. London and New York: Longman, 1995, xiii + 142 pp., £5.99.

Christopher Read, From Tsar to Soviets. The Russian People and Their Revolution, 1917–1921. London: UCL Press, 1996, vi + 330 pp.

C. M. Hann, The Skeleton at the Feast. Contributions to East European Anthropology. Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury, 1995, xv + 250 pp., £10.00.

Irena Maryniak, Spirit of the Totem: Religion and Myth in Soviet Fiction, 1964–1988. London: The Modern Humanities Research Association, Texts and Dissertations Series, Volume 39, 1995, x + 186 pp., £25.00.

Nancy Condee (ed.), Soviet Hieroglyphics: Visual Culture in Late Twentieth‐Century Russia. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995, xxv + 179 pp., £14.99.     

Book notices

Robert O. Freedman, ed., Soviet Jewry in the Decisive Decade, 1971–80. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1984. $34.75.

Graham Ross, ed., The Foreign Office and the Kremlin. British Documents on Anglo‐Soviet Relations 1941–45. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. £25.

Tamara Dragadze, ed., Kinship and Marriage in the Soviet Union. Field Studies London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. £21.00.

Norman Davies, Heart of Europe. A Short History of Poland Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984. £17.50.

Morton H. Cowden, Russian Bolshevism and British Labour 1917–1921 New York: Columbia University for Eastern European Monographs, 1984. $32.50.

John Hoffman, The Gramscian Challenge. Coercion and Consent in Marxist Political Theory Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984. £17.50.

Keith Neilson, Strategy and Supply. The Anglo‐Russian Alliance, 1914–17 London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984. £18.

Erík P. Hoffman and Robin F. Laird, eds., The Soviet Polity in the Modern Era New York: Aldine, 1984, $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

External Economic Relations of CMEA Countries: Their Significance and Impact in a Global Perspective. Brussels: NATO, 1983 316 pp.     

Book reviews

John P. Willerton, Patronage and Politics in the USSR. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, xv+305 pp., $59.95, £40.00.

Michael Ellman & Vladimir Kontorovich, eds, The Disintegration of the Soviet Economic System. London and New York: Routledge, 1992, xv+281 pp., h/b £45.00., p/b £14.99.

Paul R. Josephson, Physics and Politics in Revolutionary Russia. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991, xix+423 pp., $39.95.

Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, The Great Challenge: Nationalities and the Bolshevik State 1917–1930. Nancy Festinger, Trans., Richard Pipes, Foreword. New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1991, xviii+262 pp., $39.95.

Niels Erik Rosenfeldt, Stalin's Secret Chancellery and the Comintern. University of Copenhagen, Institute of Slavonic and East European Studies, 1991. 116 pp.

Christoph Bluth, Soviet Strategic Arms Policy Before SALT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 317 pp., £40.00.

Roger E. Kanet, Deborah Nutter Miner & Tamara J. Resler, Soviet Foreign Policy in Transition. Cambridge University Press, 1992, xvi+308 pp., £40.00, $59.95.

M. A. Babkina, ed., New Political Parties and Movements in the Soviet Union. Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 1991, 156 pp., $35.00.

S. Berglund & J. A. Dellenbrandt, eds., The New Democracies in Eastern Europe: Party Systems and Political Cleavages. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1991, xii + 237 pp., £39.95.

Gyorgy Csepeli & Antal Örkény, Ideology and Political Beliefs in Hungary: The Twilight of State Socialism. Trans., Brian McLean & Julianna Parti, London: Pinter, 1992, viii+148 pp., £35.00.     

Reviews

Martin McCauley, Who's Who in Russia since 1900. London: Routledge, 1997, xxiv + 268 pp., £12.99 p/b.

Michael McFaul, Russia's 1996 Presidential Election. The End of Polarized Politics. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1997, xiii + 170 pp., $17.95.

Laura Belin & Robert W. Orttung, with Ralph S. Clem and Peter R. Craumer, The Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1995: The Battle for the Duma. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1997, xii + 203 pp., $62.95.

Stephen White, Alex Pravda & Zvi Gitelman (eds), Developments in Russian Politics 4. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997, xvi + 304 pp., £42.50 h/b, £13.99 p/b.

Adrian Karatnycky, Alexander Motyl & Boris Shor (eds), Nations in Transit 1997. Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and the Newly Independent States. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1997, 418 pp., $49.95.

Oskar Krejci, History of Elections in Bohemia and Moravia. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs CDXXXIII, 1995, xliv + 425 pp.

Anne Lorentz & Marianne Rostgaard (eds), The Aftermath of Real Existing Socialism in Eastern Europe. Volume 2. People and Technology in the Process of Transition. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997, ix + 309 pp., £50.00.

Yudit Kiss, The Defence Industry in East‐Central Europe: Restructuring and Conversion. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 1997, vii + 237 pp., £22.50.

Shiping Zheng, Party vs. State in Post‐1949 China: The Institutional Dilemma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xiv + 294 pp., £40.00 h/b, £14.95 p/b.

John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997, x +425 pp., £25.00.

David Christian, Imperial and Soviet Russia: Power, Privilege and the Challenge of Modernity. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997, viii + 478 pp., £15.99.

Edward Acton, Vladimir Iu. Cherniaev & William G. Rosenberg (eds), Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914–1921. London: Edward Arnold, 1997, xviii + 782 pp., £59.99.

Michael David‐Fox, Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918–1929. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997, xvii + 298 pp., £33.50. >Alexander Etkind, Eros of the Impossible: The History of Psychoanalysis in Russia, trans. Noah and Maria Rubins, Oxford: Westview, 1997, vii + 408 pp., £25.50.

Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal (ed.), The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997, ix + 468 pp., £47.00 h/b, £19.50 p/b.

Knut Andreas Grimstad & Ingunn Lunde (eds), Celebrating Creativity: Essays in Honour of Jostein B0rtnes. Bergen: University of Bergen, 1997, 350 pp.     

Reviews

Anders Aslund & Richard Layard, eds, Changing the Economic System. London, Pinter Publishers: 1993, xviii + 237pp., £35.00.

János Mátyás Kova?s & Marton Tardos, eds, Reform and Transformation in Eastern Europe: Soviet‐type Economics on the Threshold of Change. London: Routledge, 1992, xix + 345 pp.

Peter J. Boettke, Why Perestroika Failed: The Politics and Economics of Socialist Transition. London: Routledge, 1993, viii + 199 pp., £35.00

John Flemming & J. M. C. Rollo, eds, Trade, Payments and Adjustment in Central and Eastern Europe. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs and EBRD, 1992, vii + 242 pp., £11.95 p/b.

Zoltan J. Acs & David B. Audretsch, eds, Small Firms and Entrepreneurship. An East‐West Perspective. Cambridge: CUP, 1993, 240 pp., £30.00, $49.95.

Alex Pravda, ed., The End of the Outer Empire: Soviet‐East European Relations in Transition, 1985–90. London: The Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1992, x + 238 pp., £35.00 h/b

Leonid Gozman & Alexander Etkind, The Psychology of Post‐Totalitarianism in Russia Trans. Roger Clarke. London: Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 1992, 121 pp., p/b £6.50.

F. J. M. Feldbrugge, ed., The Emancipation of Soviet Law. Dordrecht, Boston, London: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1992, xvii + 272 pp., £76.00. $146.00

John Massey Stewart, ed. The Soviet Environment: Problems, Policies and Politics. Cambridge: CUP, 1992, xv + 246 pp., £40.00, $64.95.

I. Kon & J. Riordan, eds, Sex and Russian Society. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993, viii + 168 pp., £35.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.

Kenneth C. Farmer, The Soviet Administrative Elite. New York: Praeger, 1992, xii + 296 pp., £39.95.

Robert Service, ed. Society and Politics in the Russian Revolution. New York: St Martin's Press, Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1992. Published in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, in their series Studies in Russia and East Europe. 199 pp., + index. £40.00 h/b, £14.99 p/b.     

Reviews

Bert van Selm, The Economics of Soviet Break‐up. London: Routledge, 1997, xii + 161 pp., £40.00.

Clifford G. Gaddy, The Price of the Past. Russia's Struggle with the Legacy of a Militarised Economy. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1996, xiii + 250 pp., £20.95.

Mark Galeotti, Gorbachev and His Revolution. London: Macmillan, 1997, ix + 142 pp., £35.00 h/b, £9.99 p/b.

Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl & Melvin A. Goodman, The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze. London: Hurst & Company, 1997, xxiii +331pp., £29.50.

Justin Burke, Crimean Tatars: Repatriation and Conflict Prevention. New York: Open Society Institute, Forced Migrations Projects, 1996, 95 pp., distributed free.

Phil Williams (ed.), Russian Organized Crime. The New Threat? London: Frank Cass, 1997, 270 pp., £29.50 h/b, £16.50 p/b.

Karen Dawisha & Bruce Parrott (eds), Democratic Changes and Authoritarian Reactions in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, xvii + 386 pp., £55.00 h/b, £19.95 p/b.

Joan Barth Urban & Valerii D. Solovei, Russia's Communists at the Crossroads. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997, xi + 209 pp., £14.00

Semyon Reznik, The Nazification of Russia: Antisemitism in the Post‐Soviet Era. Challenge Publications: Washington, DC, 1996.

Stephen J. Blank & Alvin Z. Rubinstein (eds), Imperial Decline. Russia's Changing Role in Asia. London: Duke University Press, 1997, vi + 296 pp. £14.95.

Miranda Vickers & James Pettifer, Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity. London: Hurst & Company, 1997, xii + 324 pp.

Eric D. Weitz, Creating German Communism, 1890–1990. From Popular Protests to Socialist State. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997, xviii + 445 pp. £52.50 h/b, £19.95 p/b.

Mark Harrison, Accounting for War. Soviet Production, Employment and the Defence Burden 1940–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xxxiv + 338 pp.

Arup Banerji, Merchants and Markets in Revolutionary Russia, 1917–30, Basingstoke; Macmillan, 1997, xxiv + 237 pp. £45.00.

Melissa Kirschke Stockdale, Paul Miliukov and the Quest for a Liberal Russia, 1880–1918. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996, xix + 379 pp., £29.95.

A. V. Buganov, Russkaya istoriya v pamyati krest'yan XIX veka i natsional'noe samosoznanie. Moscow: Institut etnologii i antropologii im. N. N. Minklukho‐Maklaya, 1992, 208 pp.     

Book notices

William C. Fuller, Jr., Civil‐Military Conflict in Imperial Russia 1881–1914. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985, 295 pp., £28.40.

Vladislav Krasnov, Soviet Defectors. The KGB Wanted List. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1986, 264 pp., $16.95.

Tsien‐hua Tsui, The Sino‐Soviet Border Dispute in the 1970s. London: John Calder, 1985, 151 pp., £8.95 paperback.

E. H. Carr, What is History? Second edition, ed. R. W. Davies. London: Macmillan, 1986, xlvi + 155 pp., £25.00.

Spiridon Paraskewopoulos, Konjunkturkrisen im Sozialismus: Eine ordnungstheoretische Analyse. Stuttgart, New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985, xiii + 207 pp., DM 72,—.

Alain Rémy, Un Retour a l'Or? Analyses sovietiques sur le Systeme Monetaire International. Paris: Economica, 1985, x + 148 pp. 85 F.

Heinrich Machowski, ed., Harmonisierung der Wirtschaftspolitik in Osteuropa. Berlin: Arno Spitz, 1985, 86 pp., DM 18.80.

Wladislaw Jermakowicz, Das Wirtschaftliche Lenkungssystem Polens: Indikatoren und Determinan‐ten seiner ēntwicklung 1944–1984. Marburg an der Lahn, J. G. Herder Institut, 1985, 89 pp. No price.

Yu. G. Fel'shtinsky, Bol'sheviki i levye esery: oktyabr’ 1917‐iyul’ 1918. Na puti k odnopartiinoi diktature. Issledovaniya noveishei russkoi istorii. YMCA‐Press, Paris 1985. 287 pp., No price.

Vendulka Kubalkova and Albert Cruikshank, Marxism and International Relations. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985, 281 pp., £22.50.

Vojtech Mastny, ed., Soviet/East European Survey, 1983–84. Selected Research and Analysis from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Durham NC and London: Duke University Press, 1985, 436 pp., £45 cloth/£14.75 paper.

Esther Kingston‐Mann, Lenin and the Problem of Marxist Peasant Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985, 237 pp., £10.95 paperback.

Leonard Schapiro, 1917: the Russian Revolutions and the Origins of Present‐day Communism. Harmondsworth, Mx.: Penguin Books, 1985, 239 pp., £3.95 paperback.

E. A. Preobrazhensky, The Decline of Capitalism, trans, and ed. Richard B. Day. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1985, 205 pp., $30.00 hardback.

Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Soviet Policy towards Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. The Dynamics of Influence. New York: Praeger, 1982, 201 pp., $24.95 hardback/$10.95 paperback.

Alan Bookbinder, Olivia Lichtenstein and Richard Denton, Comrades. Portraits of Soviet Life. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985, 176 pp., £11.95 hardback.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Igor Golomshtok and Janet Kennedy, Soviet Emigre Artists. Life and Work in the USSR and the United States. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1985, 170 pp., $25.00 hardback.

Basile Kerblay and Marie Lavigne, Les Soviétiques des années 80. Paris: Armand Colin, 1985, 215 pp., unpriced, paperback.

David R. Jones, The Advanced Guard and Mobility in Russian and Soviet Military Thought and Practice. Gulf Breeze, Fla.: Academic International Press, 1985, 139 pp., $10.50 paperback.

Raymond G. Rocca and John J. Dziak, eds., Bibliography on Soviet Intelligence and Security Services. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1985, 203 pp., £16.25 paperback.

Paul Robert Magocsi, Galicia. A Historical Survey and Bibliographic Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983, 300 pp., $24.95 hardback.

Barbara Alpern Engel, Mothers and Daughters. Women of the Intelligentisa in Nineteenth‐century Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, 230 pp., £7.95 paperback.

John B. Dunlop, Richard S. Haugh and Michael Nicholson, eds., Solzhenitsyn in Exile. Critical Essays and Documentary Materials. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1985, 414 pp., $19.95 hardback.     

Book notices

Bent Jensen, Danmark og det Russiske Spørgsmål, 1917–1924 [Denmark and the Russian Question, 1917–1924, with an English Summary]. Aarhus: Universitetsforlaget, 1979. 598 pp. 170.45 DKr.

Kurt Spiess, Periphere Sowjetwirtschaft: Das Beispiel Russich‐Fernost 1897–1970. Zurich: Atlantis, 1980. 202 pp.

K.‐E. Schenk & S. Wass von Czege, Sturkturwandel durch intersystemare Unternehmens‐kooperation—das Beispiel des ungarischen Werkzeugmaschinenbaus. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1980. xiv + 185 pp. DM 32‐.

Christopher J. Walker, Armenia: The Survival of a Nation. London: Croom Helm, 1980. 446 pp. £14.95.

Antony Polonsky and Boleslaw Drukier (eds.), The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. viii + 464 pp. £14.50.

Michael Bourdeaux and Michael Rowe, May One Believe—in Russia? Violations of Religious Liberty in the Soviet Union. London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1980. xiii + 113 pp. £3.45.

C. M. Hann, Tázlár: a village in Hungary. Cambridge: CUP, 1980. xii + 206 pp. £12.00.

Bill Lomax (ed.), Eyewitness in Hungary: The Soviet Invasion of 1956. Nottingham: Spokesman Books, 1980. 183 pp. £8.50.

J. N. Westwood, Russia since 1917. London: Batsford, 1980. 219 pp. £3.95.

W. M. Pinter and D. K. Rowney (eds.), Russian Officialdom: The Bureaucratization of Russian Society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. London: Macmillan, 1980. xvii + 396 pp. £20.00.

William B. Simons (ed.), The Constitutions of the Communist World. Leyden: Sijthoff & Norrdhoff, 1980. 662 pp. $92.50.

Alexander Podrabinek, Punitive Medicine. Ann Arbor: Karoma Publishers Inc., 1980. 237 pp. $12.95.

Roy Medvedev, On Soviet Dissent: Interviews with Piero Ostellino. London: Constable, 1980. 158 pp. £5.95.

Herwig E. Haase, Development trends in the GDR Economy during the 1980s: A Prognosis of its Problems. Berlin: Berichte des Osteuropa‐Instituts an der Freien Universität, 1980. 100 pp. DM 12,—

Irish Slavonic Studies, No. 1, 1980. Belfast: Queen's University, Department of Slavonic Studies. 140 pp. £1.25 (individuals), £2.00 (institutions), £3.00 (overseas).     

Book notices

Peter Galasi and Gyorgy Sziraczki, eds. Labour Market and Second Economy in Hungary. Frankfurt, New York: Campus Verlag, 1985, 339 pp., DM 58,‐

L. Csaba, Three Studies on the CMEA, ’Trends in the World Economy No. 52’, Hungarian Scientific Council for World Economy, Budapest, 1985, 99 pp. No price.

Ivan Loncarevic, Agrarmarktgestaltung in Jugoslawien (Giessener Abhandlungen zur Agrar‐ und Wirtschaftsforschung des Europäischen Ostens, Band 135) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1985, 104 pp. DM 24,‐

Hans Rogger, Jewish Policies and Right‐Wing Politics in Imperial Russia. London: Macmillan/St. Antony's, 1986, vii + 289 pp., £29.50 h/b.

Mary Seton‐Watson, Scenes from Sovíet Life. Soviet Life through Official Literature. London: Ariel Books, 1986, 159 pp., £2.95.

W. R. Corson and R. T. Crowley, The New KGB: Engine of Soviet Power. Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1986, 560 pp., £25.00 h/b, £9.95 p/b.

Russkaya revolyutsiya glazami Petrogradskogo chinovnika. Dnevnik 1917–1918 gg., edited by Jens Petter Nielsen and Boris Weil. Oslo: Universitet i Oslo Slavisk‐Baltisk Institutt Meddelelser No. 48, 1986, 60 pp., unpriced.

Murray Yanowitch, ed., The Social Structure of the USSR. Recent Soviet Studies. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, xi + 275 pp., $40.00 h/b.

A. Avtorkhanov, Ot Andropova k Gorbachevu. Paris: YMCA Press, 1986, 350 pp., unpriced.

Angela E. Stent, ed., Economic Relations with the Soviet Union. American and West German Perspectives. Boulder, Col.: Westview Press, 1985, xviii + 182 pp., £22.50 p/b.

Philip Pomper, ed., Trotsky's Notebooks, 1933–1935. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986, vii + 175 pp., US $25.00 h/b.

Charles Hobday, ed., Communist and Marxist Parties of the World. A Keesing's Reference Publication. London: Longman, 1986, 550 pp., £48.00 h/b.

Bernhard Dilger et al., eds., Vergleichende Bildungsforschung. DDR, Osteuropa und interkulturelle Perspektiven. Berlin, Verlag Arno Spitz, 1986, 548 pp., DM 68 h/b.

Oskar Anweiler, ed., Staatliche Steuerung und Eigendynamik im Bildungs‐ und Erziehungswesen osteuropäischer Staaten und der DDR. Berlin, Verlag Arno Spitz, 1986, 293 pp., DM 38 p/b.     

Reviews

Anders Aslund, How Russia Became a Market Economy. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, xviii + 378 pp., £25.75/£9.95.

Boris Kagarlitsky, Restoration in Russia: Why Capitalism Failed. London: Verso, 1995, 172 pp., £39.95/£11.95.

Simon Clarke (ed.), Management and Industry in Russia: Formal and Informal Relations in the Period of Transition. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995, xii + 244 pp. £45.00.

Jan Adam, Why Did the Socialist System Collapse in Central and Eastern European Countries? The Case of Poland, the Former Czechoslovakia and Hungary. London: Macmillan, 1996, xii + 244 pp., £40.00.

? Bogeti? & Arye L. Hillman (eds), Financing Government in the Transition: Bulgaria. The Political Economy of Tax Policies, Tax Bases, and Tax Evasion. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1995, xv + 254 pp., £19.95.

Vladimir Tismaneanu (ed.), Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995, xiii + 384 pp., $22.95.

Alexander Maksimovich Yakovlev, Striving for Law in a Lawless Land—Memoirs of a Russian Reformer. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xvi + 237 pp., $62.95.

Tuomas Forsberg (ed.), Contested Territory: Border Disputes at the Edge of the Former Soviet Empire. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995, xi + 267 pp., £45.00.

Graham Smith (ed.), The Nationalities Question in the Post‐Soviet States. London: Longman, 1996, xiv + 524 pp.

Aleksandr’ G. Savel'yev & Nikolai N. Detinov, The Big Five: Arms Control Decision‐making in the Soviet Union. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995, xiv + 204 pp., £47.95.

Keith L. Nelson, The Making of Detente: Soviet‐American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, xvii + 217pp., £29.00.

George Ginsburgs, Alvin Z. Rubinstein & Oles M. Smolansky (eds), Russia and America: From Rivalry to Reconciliation, New York: M. Sharpe, 1993, xi + 353 pp.

Diego Cordovez & Selig S. Harrison, Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, ix + 450 pp., $35.00.

Andrei S. Grachev, Final Days. The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995, xviii + 222 pp., £22.50.

Ilya Prizel & Andrew A. Michta (eds), Polish Foreign Policy Reconsidered. Challenges of Independence. Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1995, xiii + 174 pp., £25.00.

James Riordan, Christopher Williams & Igor Uynsky (eds), Young People in Post‐Communist Russia and Eastern Europe. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1995, xvi + 215 pp., £39.50.

James von Geldern & Richard Stites (eds), Mass Culture in Soviet Russia: Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays and Folklore 1917–1953. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995, xxix + 492 pp., £39.50 h/b, £19.50 p/b.

Katerina Clark, Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995, xii + 377 pp., £25.50.

Anna Feldman Leibovich, The Russian Concept of Work: Suffering, Drama, and Tradition in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Russia. Westport, CT and London: Praeger, xv + 166 pp., £44.95.

R. Antony French. Plans, Pragmatism & People. The Legacy of Soviet Planning for Today's Cities. London: UCL Press, 1995, xi + 233 pp.

Roger Brunet, Denis Eckert & Vladimir Kolossov, Atlas de la Russie et des pays proches. Montpellier‐Paris: Reclus‐La Documentation Franchise, 1995, 208 pp., 220Ff.

Bruce Grant, In the Soviet House of Culture: A Century of Perestroikas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995, xvii + 225 pp., £12.00.

Michael Bourdeaux (ed.), The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia, The International Politics of Eurasia, Volume 3. Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 1995, xiv + 321 pp., $49.95 h/b, $19.95p/b.     

Reviews

Joseph L. Nogee and Robert H. Donaldson, Soviel Foreign Policy Since World War II. New York: Pergamon Press, 1981. viii + 320 pp. Flexicover, £5.45.

Robert H. Donaldson (ed.), The Soviet Union in the Third World: Successes and Failures. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press / London: Croom Helm, 1981. xiv + 458 pp. Hardcover, $25.00.

Karen Dawisha and Philip Hanson (eds.), Soviet—East European Dilemmas: Coercion, Competition, and Consent. London: Heinemann for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1981. xiv + 226 pp. Paper, £5.95.

Jerry F. Hough, Soviet Leadership in Transition. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1980. viii + 175 pp. $11.95 and $4.95.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921–1934. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. x + 355 pp. £15.50.

Jan Ake Dellenbrant, Soviet Regional Policy: A Quantitative Inquiry into the Social and Political Development of the Soviet Republics. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1980. 192 pp. Sw. kr. 105.—

Maria Hirszowicz, The Bureaucratic Leviathan: A Study in the Sociology of Communism. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1980. x + 208 pp. £12.50.

Theodore H. Friedgut, Political Participation in the USSR. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1979. xvi + 353 pp. £11.70.

Ronald J. Hill, Soviet Politics, Political Science and Reform. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1980. x + 221 pp. Hardcover. £12.00.

Daniel N. Nelson, Democratic Centralism in Romania: A Study of Local Communist Politics. Boulder: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York 1980. xii + 186 pp. $19.50.

Timothy Dunmore, The Stalinist Command Economy: The Soviet State Apparatus and Economic Policy 1945–53. London: Macmillan, 1980. xii + 176 pp. £20.00.

Paul Marrer and John Michael Montias (eds.), East European Integration and East‐West Trade. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980. vi+432 pp. US, Canada $32.50, UK £19.50, Elsewhere $40.63.

Christoph Bertram (ed.), Prospects of Soviet Power in the 1980s. London: Macmillan in association with the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1980. 126 pp. £15.00.

Jiri Valenta, Soviet Intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1968: Anatomy of a Decision. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979. xii + 208 pp. £7.75.

R. Selucky, Marx, socialism and freedom. London: Macmillan, 1979. 237 pp. £12.00.

Mihaly Vajda, The State and Socialism. London: Allison and Busby, 1981. 150 pp. £9.95 and £4.50.

Elizabeth Pond, Russia Perceived. A Trans‐Siberian Journey. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1981. 296 pp. £9.95.

Philip T. Grier, Marxist Ethical Theory in the Soviet Union. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1978. xvii + 276 pp. No price.

Edward M. Swiderski, The Philosophical Foundations of Soviet Aesthetics: Theories and Controversies in the Post‐War Years. Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1979. xviii + 225 pp. DM.65, US $34.00.

Edward Braun, The Theatre of Meyerhold: Revolution on the Modern Stage. London: Eyre Methuen, 1979. 299 pp. £9.95.     

Book notices

Zbigniew M. Fallenbuchl (ed.), Economic Development in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, Volume 2, Sectoral Analysis. New York: Praeger, 1976. xvii+409 pp. $27.50. £16.80.

Helmut Leipold (ed.), Sozialistische Marktwirtschaften. Konzeptionen und Lenkungs‐probleme. (Beck'sche Schwarze Reihe, Band 124.) München: C. H. Beck, 1975. 201 pp. DM 16.80.

Robert W. Dean, West German Trade with the East: The Political Dimension. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government.) New York: Praeger, 1974. xvi+ 269 pp. $17.50.

Richard Löwenthal (ed.), Die Sowjetunion als Weltmacht. (Commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde.) Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1976. 144 pp. DM 28.00.

Boris Meissner (ed.), Moshau‐Bonn. Die Beziehungen zwischen der Sowjetunion und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1955–1973. Dokumentation. (Series: Dokumente zur Aussenpolitik, Vol. III, Parts I and II.) Köln: Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, 1975. 1694 pp.

Gary K. Bertsch and Thomas W. Ganschow (eds.), Comparative Communism: The Soviet, Chinese, and Yugoslav Models. San Fransisco: W. H. Freeman, 1976. ix+463 pp. £7.80 or £3.90 (paperback).

Bohdan Harasymiw (ed.), Education and the Mass Media in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Government.) New York: Praeger, 1976. xvi+134 pp. £10.10.

Christopher Moody, Solzhenitsyn. ('Modern Writers’ series.) Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1976. Second, revised, edition. (First edition, 1973.) 206 pp. £2.50 cased or £1.15 (paperback).

Vladimir Maximov (ed.), Kontinent I: the Alternative Voice of Russia and Eastern Europe. London: Andre Deutsch, 1976. 180 pp. £3.95.

Roy A. Medvedev and R. Lert (eds.), Dvadtsatyi vek: obshchestvenno‐politicheskii i literaturnyi al'manakh. No. 1. London: T.C.D. (Twentieth Century Digest) Publications, 1976. (Distributed by Orbis Books Ltd., 66 Kenway Road, London, S.W.5.) 237 pp. £3.00

Elisabeth Barker, British Policy in South‐East Europe in the Second World War. (Series: Studies in Russian and East European History.) London: Macmillan Press, 1976. viii+320 pp. £10.00.     

Reviews

K. Post and P. Wright, Socialism and Underdevelopment. London and New York: Routledge, 1989, x+204 pp.

Richard Stites, Revolutionary Dreams. Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, viii+307 pp., £26.00.

Henry S. Rowen and Charles Wolf Jr. eds., The Future of the Soviet Empire. foreword by Donald H. Rumsfeld. London: Macmillan Press, 1988, xx+368 pp., £27.50.

Alexander Shtromas and Morton A. Kaplan eds., The Soviet Union and the Challenge of the Future—Volume 1: Stasis and Change. New York: Paragon House Publishers, 1988, xx+555 pp., $29.95.

Alvin Z. Rubinstein, Moscow's Third World Strategy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989, xi+311 pp., $29.95.

Leo Cooper, The Political Economy of Soviet Military Power. London: Macmillan, 1989, xi+263 pp., £29.50.

Clive Archer ed., The Soviet Union and Northern Waters. London: Routledge for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1988, xvii+261 pp., £35.00.

Jeffry Klugman, The New Soviet Elite: How They Think and What They Want. New York: Praeger, 1989, 237 pp., $24.95.

Bruno Grancelli, Soviet Management and Labour Relations. London: Allen and Unwin, 1988, xvi+248 pp., £28.00.

Ellen Mickiewicz, Split Signals: Television and Politics in the Soviet Union. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988, xi+286 pp., £18.00.

William van den Bercken, Ideology and Atheism in the Soviet Union (Religion and Society 28). Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989, viii+191 pp., DM 98.00.

Stephen White, The Origins of Detente: The Genoa Conference and Soviet‐Western Relations, 1921–1922. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, xv+255 pp., £25.00.

Anita Prazmowska, Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, viii+231 pp., £25.00.

Ivo Banac, With Stalin against Tito: Cominformist Splits in Yugoslav Communism. London: Cornell University Press, 1988, XVI+294 pp., $35.75.

Harold Lydall, Yugoslavia in Crisis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, xii+255 pp., £25.00.

Josef C. Brada and Istvan Dobozi, eds., The Hungarian Economy in the 1980s: Reforming the System and Adjusting to External Shocks. London: JAI Press Inc., 1988, xv+277 pp., $58.50 (Instit), $35.10 (Indiv.).

J. C. Brada, E. A. Hewett & T. A. Wolf, eds., Economic Adjustment and Reform in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1988, xxv+428 pp., £54.00.

John P. Hardt and Carl H. McMillan, Planned Economies Confronting the Challenge of the 1980s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988, xiv+193 pp., £25.00.

Pedro Ramet, ed., Eastern Christianity and Politics in the Twentieth Century. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1988, viii+465 pp., $47.50.

Jan Zielonka, Political Ideas in Contemporary Poland. Avebury: Gower, 1989, ix+210 pp., £25.00.

A. J. Motyl, Will the Non‐Russians Rebel? State Ethnicity and Stability in the USSR. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, xii+188 pp., $27.45.

Mike Dennis, German Democratic Republic. Politics, Economics and Society. London and New York: Pinter, 1988, vii+223 pp., h/b £25.00, p/b £8.95.

Marilyn Rueschemeyer and Christiane Lemke eds., The Quality of Life in the German Democratic Republic. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1989, xiii+242 pp., $40.00.

Stephen F. Burant ed., East Germany: a Country Study. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1988, 3rd ed., xxxiii+433 pp.

Artemy Troitsky, Back in the USSR: The True Story of Rock in Russia. (Title of British edition: Tell Tchaikovsky the News...) Boston, MA, and London: Faber and Faber, 1988, 160 pp., $9.95 p/b.     

Book reviews

Naum Jasny, Soviet Economists of the Twenties: Names to be Remembered. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1972. ix + 218 pp. £3.80. $12.50.

Leonard Joel Kirsch, Soviet Wages: Changes in Structure and Administration since 1956. Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1972. 237 pp. $12.50.

Robert C. Stuart, The Collective Farm in Soviet Agriculture. Lexington, Mass. and London: Lexington Books, D. C. Heath & Co., 1972. xx + 254 pp. $12.50.

Mose L. Harvey, Leon Goure and Vladimir Prokofieff, Science and Technology as an Instrument of Soviet Policy. Monographs in International Affairs: Center for Advanced International Studies, University of Miami, 1972. xvi + 219 pp. $5.95 (hard cover). $4.95 (paper cover).

I. S. Koropeckyj, Location Problems in Soviet Industry Before World War II. The Case of the Ukraine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971, and London: OUP, 1972. xiii + 219 pp. £5.75.

Chris Osakwe, The Participation of the Soviet Union in Universal International Organizations: A Political and Legal Analysis of Soviet Strategies and Aspirations inside ILO, UNESCO and WHO. Leiden: A. W. Sijthoff, 1972. xvi + 194 pp. Dfl. 35.—

Dieter Pfaff, Das Sowjetische Transportrecht ah Teil des Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrechts. Hamburg: Hansischer Gilden‐Verlag, Joachim Heitmann & Co., 1970. 147 pp.

Roger Pethybridge, The Spread of the Russian Revolution; Essays on London: Macmillan, 1972. xii + 238 pp. £4.50.

Peter Kenez, Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer Army. Berkeley, Calif, and London: University of California Press, 1971. 351 pp. $10.00. £4.75.

George Lenczowski, Soviet Advances in the Middle East. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1972. 176 pp. $4.00 (paperback).

Robert C. Williams, Culture in Exile. Russian Emigrés in Germany 1881–1941. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1972. xviii + 404 pp. $14.50. £6.90.

Lucjan Blit, The Origins of Polish Socialism: The History and Ideas of the First Polish Socialist Party 1878–1886. Cambridge: University Press, 1971. ix + 160 pp. £3.00 $10.00

Andrew C. Janos and William B. Slottman (eds.), Revolution in Perspective. Essays on the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919. Berkeley, Calif, and London: University of California Press, 1972. (Russian and East European Studies.) x + 185 pp. $10.00. £4.50.     

Reviews

Vladimir Mau, The Political History of Economic Reform in Russia, 1985–1994 (Foreword by Lord Skidelsky; afterword by Egor Gaidar). London: Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 1996, viii + 135 pp. £9.95.

Tim McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996, x + 201 pp. £24.95.

John Lowenhardt, The Reincarnation of Russia. Struggling with the Legacy of Communism, 1990–1994. Harlow: Longman, 1995, xii + 238 pp. £12.99.

Jeffrey W. Hahn (ed.), Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, 328 pp., $63.95 h/b, $24.95 p/b.

Celeste A. Wallander (ed.), The Sources of Russian Foreign Policy after the Cold War. Boulder Co: Westview, 1996, xi + 233 pp., £15.50.

David Cox, Retreating from the Cold War: Germany, Russia and the Withdrawal of the Western Group of Forces, London: Macmillan, 1996, xiv + 185 pp., £35.00.

Mark Webber, The International Politics of Russia and the Successor States. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996, xvii + 366 pp. £14.99.

Michael Kraus & Ronald D. Liebowitz (eds), Russia and Eastern Europe after Communism: The Search for New Political, Economic and Security Systems. Boulder, Co: Westview Press, 1996, xv+ 349 pp., £51.95.

Ivan T. Berend, Central and Eastern Europe, 1944–1993: Detour from Periphery to Periphery. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii + 414 pp., £45.00.

Hubert Tworzecki, Parties and Politics in Post‐1989 Poland. Boulder, Co: Westview, 1996 xv + 219 pp.,

Jaroslav Krej?í & Pavel Machonin, Czechoslovakia 1918–92: A Laboratory for Social Change. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, xviii + 266 pp., £42.50.

Jon Elster (ed.), The Roundtable Talks and the Breakdown of Communism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 1996, vi + 247 pp., £31.95.

J. Eatwell, M. Ellman, M. Nuti & J. Shapiro, Transformation and Integration: Shaping the Future of Central and Eastern Europe. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 1995, 206 pp.

D. Gross & A. Steinherr, Winds of Change—Economic Transition in Central and Western Europe. London: Longman, 1995.

Constantine Michalopoulos & David Tarr, Trade Performance and Policy in the New Independent States. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1996, vi + 30 pp.

Laurila Juhani, Finnish‐Soviet Clearing Trade and Payment System: History and Lessons. Helsinki: Bank of Finland, 1995, 144 pp.

Walter R. Iwaskiw (ed.), Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: Country Studies. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1996, xxxix + 304 pp.

Peter Unwin, Baltic Approaches. Wilby Hall, Norwich: Michael Russell, 1996, 256 pp., £19.50.

Yegor Ligachev, Inside Gorbachev's Kremlin: The Memoirs of Yegor Ligachev. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996, xxxix + 407 pp., £19.00.

Hillel Ticktin & Michael Cox (eds), The Ideas of Leon Trotsky. London: Porcupine Press, 1995, viii + 386 pp., £14.95.

Folke Dovring, Leninism: Political Economy as Pseudoscience, Westport,: Praeger, 1996, xi + 155 pp., £39.95.

Kevin Anderson, Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: A Critical Study, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1995, xvii + 311 pp., $49.95 h/b, $15.95 p/b.

Ragnar E. Löfstedt & Gunnar Sjöstedt (eds), Environmental Aid Programmes to Eastern Europe, Aldershot: Avebury, 1996, ix+226 pp., £37.50.

Seabron Adamson, Robin Bates, Robert Laslett & Alberto Potoschnig, Energy Use, Air Pollution, and Environmental Policy in Krakow: Can Economic Incentives Really Help? Washington DC: The World Bank, 1996, 67 pp.

Alexander S. Preker & Richard G.A. Feachem, Market Mechanisms and the Health Sector in Central and Eastern Europe. Washington DC: The World Bank, 1995, 48 pp.

Adrian Room, Placenames of Russia and the Former Soviet Union. London: McFarland 1996, v + 282 pp., £52.65.

G. S. Smith, The Letters of D. S. Mirsky to P. P. Suvchinskii, 1922–31. Birmingham: Department of Russian Language and Literature, University of Birmingham, 1995, vii + 238 pp., £16.00

Nicholas Rzhevsky (ed.), An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xiv + 587 pp.

Donald J. Raleigh (ed.), The Emperors and Empresses of Russia: Rediscovering the Romanovs. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xviii + 414 pp., $59.95 h/b, $23.95 p/b.

Maureen Perrie, Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia: The False Tsars of the Time of Troubles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, xvii + 269 pp. £40.00.     

Reviews

Daniel S. Fogel (ed.), Firm Behaviour in Emerging Market Economies: Cases from the Private and Public Sectors in Central and Eastern Europe. Aldershot: Avebury, 1996, ix + 193 pp., £35.00.

Oldrich D#akedek et al., The Break‐up of Czechoslovakia: an In‐depth Economic Analysis. Aldershot: Avebury, 1996, xi + 208 pp., £32.50.

OECD, OECD Economic Surveys: The Czech Republic. Paris: OECD, 1996, viii + 121 pp.

OECD, OECD Economic Surveys: The Slovak Republic. Paris: OECD, 1996, viii + 159 pp.

Jan Winiecki (ed.), Five Years after June: the Polish Transformation, 1989–1994. London: The Centre for Research into Communist Economies, 1996, vi + 138 pp., £9.95.

Boris Rumer (ed.), Central Asia in Transition: Dilemmas of Political and Economic Development. London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xx + 286 pp.

Rosemarie Forsythe, The Politics of Oil in The Caucasus and Central Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 67 pp., £13.99.

Wei Ding et al., Bosnia and Herzegovina: Toward Economic Recovery. Washington, DC: The World Bank, 1996, xxxi + 68 pp., £8.95.

Dmitri Steinberg, The Soviet Economy 1970–1990. A Statistical Analysis. San Francisco: International Trade Press, 1990, x + 350 pp., $115.00.

Abram Chayes & Antonia Handler Chayes (eds), Preventing Conflict in the Post‐Communist World. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996, vii + 605 pp.

Trevor Findlay (ed.), Challenges for the New Peacekeepers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xii + 170 pp., £25.00 h/b, £12.95 p/b.

Ike Jeanes, Forecast and Solution: Grappling with the Nuclear, a Trilogy for Everyone. Blacksburg, VA: Pocahontas Press, 1996, xiv + 770 pp., £25.00.

David R. Marples, Belarus: From Soviet Rule to Nuclear Catastrophe. London: Macmillan, 1996, xxi + 179 pp., £14.99.

Jeffrey D. McCausland, Conventional Arms Control and European Security: Conventional Arms Control Agreements and Their Role in the Emerging European Security Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 76 pp., £13.99.

Christopher Williams, Vladimir Chuprov & Vladimir Staroverov (eds), Russian Society in Transition. Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1996, xi + 315 pp., £39.50.

James O. Finckenauer, Russian Youth. Law, Deviance and the Pursuit of Freedom. London: Transaction, 1995, xvii + 237 pp., $34.95.

Rosalind Marsh (ed. & trans.), Women in Russia and Ukraine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii + 350 pp., £55.00 h/b, £19.95 p/b.

Jeff Chinn & Robert Kaiser, Russians as the New Minority: Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Soviet Successor States. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996, xii + 308 pp., £48.50 h/b, £13.50 p/b.

Ladislav Holy, The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation. National Identity and the Post‐communist Transformation of Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, x + 226 pp., £50.00 h/b, £16.96 p/b.

Francine Friedman, The Bosnian Muslims. Denial of a Nation. Colorado: Westview Press, 1996, xv + 288 pp., £14.95.

Yuri Feofanov & Donald D. Barry, Politics and Justice in Russia: Major Trials of the Post‐Stalin Era. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xiii + 346 pp., $62.95 h/b, $21.95 p/b.

Kathryn Hendley, Trying to Make Law Matter. Legal Reform and Labour Law in the Soviet Union. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996, viii + 265 pp., $39.50 h/b.

Mark Lupher, Power Restructuring in China and Russia. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, xv+ 335 pp., £34.50 h/b, £13.50 p/b.

Gary D. Rawnsley, Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: the BBC and VOA in International Politics, 1956–64. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, x + 224 pp., £35.00.

Hugh Ragsdale, The Russian Tragedy: the Burden of History. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xix + 306 pp., $61.95 h/b, $21.95 p/b.

Adele Lindenmeyr, Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State in Imperial Russia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, xiv + 335 pp., $49.50.

Derek Watson, Molotov and Soviet Government. Sovnarkom, 1931–1941. Basingstoke: Macmillan/New York: St Martin's Press, 1996, xxiii + 274 pp., £45.00.

Lars T. Lih, Oleg V. Naumov & Oleg V. Khlevniuk (eds), Stalin's Letters to Molotov, 1925–1936. London: Yale, 1995, xviii + 276 pp., £16.95.

Sekrety Gitlera na stole u Stalina: razvedka i kontrrazvedka o podgotovke germanskoi agressii protiv SSSR, mart‐iyun’ 1941 g. Dokumenty iz Tsentral'nogo arkhiva FSB. Moscow: Mosgorarkhiv, 1995, 254 pp.     

Book reviews

Volodymyr Kubijovy? (ed.), Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia. Prepared by Shevchenko Scientific Society. Foreword by Ernest J. Simmons. Volume II. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. xliii + 1394 pp.

Ellendea Proffer (ed.), The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov. Translated by Carl R. Proffer and Ellendea Proffer. Bloomington and London: Indiana UP, 1972. xxvii + 418 pp. $10.00. £4.75.

Ellendea Proffer and Carl R. Proffer (eds.), Mikhail Bulgakov: Diaboliad and Other Stories. Translated by Carl R. Proffer. Bloomington and London: Indiana UP, 1972. xx + 236 pp. $5.95. £2.85.

Philip Hanson, The Development of Advertising in Eastern Europe. London: The Advertising Association [1973]. (Research Studies in Advertising No. 7.) 140 pp. £1.75 (paperback).

Josef Breburda (ed.), Landwirtschaftliche Probleme der Ukraine. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1971. 235 pp.

Werner G. Hahn, The Politics of Soviet Agriculture, 1960–1970. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1972. xix + 311 pp. £5.65.

Gayle Durham Hollander, Soviet Political Indoctrination. Developments in Mass Media and Propaganda Since Stalin. New York: Praeger Publishers and London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. (Praeger Special Studies in International Politics and Public Affairs.) xviii + 244 pp. £6.25.

Zvi Y. Gitelman, Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics. The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917–1930. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1972, and London: OUP, 1973. xii + 573 pp. $20.00. £10.00.

Michael Waller, The Language of Communism. A Commentary. London: The Bodley Head, 1972. 183 pp. £2.00.

Joseph S. Berliner, Economy, Society and Welfare: A Study in Social Economics. New York: Praeger Publishers and London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. xvii + 196 pp. £5.75.

James R. Millar (ed.), The Soviet Rural Community. A Symposium. Urbana and London: University of Illinois Press, 1971. xv + 420 pp. $12.50. £6.00.

J. Wilczynski, Profit, Risk and Incentives under Socialist Economic Planning. London: Macmillan, 1973. viii + 232 pp. £5.50.

E. L. Johnson, An Introduction to the Soviet Legal System. London: Methuen, 1972. viii + 243 pp. £1.60 (paperback).

Roy D. Laird, The Soviet Paradigm. An Experiment in Creating a Mono‐hierarchical Polity. New York: The Free Press and London: Collier‐Macmillan Publishers, 1971. xxviii + 272 pp. £4.00.

George R. Feiwel, Industrialization and Planning under Polish Socialism. Vol. I—Poland's Industrialization Policy: A Current Analysis. Sources of Economic Growth and Retrogression. Vol. II—Problems in Polish Economic Planning. Continuity, Change, and Prospects. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971 and London: Pall Mall Press, 1972. (Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development.) xxv + 748 pp. and xvii + 454 pp. £10.50 and £8.50.

Dorothy W. Douglas, Transitional Economic Systems: The Polish‐Czech Example. Introduction by Lynn Turgeon, New York and London: Monthly Review Press, 1972. xxxii + 375 pp. £4.90.

David McLellan, The Thought of Karl Marx. An Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1971. ix + 237 pp. £3.50. £1.50 (paperback).

Daniel Tarschys, Beyond the State. The Future Polity in Classical and Soviet Marxism. Stockholm: Scandinavian University Books, 1971. 261 pp. (paperback).     

Reviews

David W. Lovell, From Marx to Lenin. An Evaluation of Marx's Responsibility for Soviet Authoritarianism. London: Cambridge University Press, 1984, xii + 231 pp. £19–50.

A. J. Polan, Lenin and the End of Politics. London: Methuen, 1984, vi + 229 pp. h/b £12–95, p/b £5–95.

David Lane, State and Politics in the USSR. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985, xv + 398 pp. h/b £27–50 p/b £8.95. Soviet Economy and Society. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1985, xiii + 342 pp. h/b £27–50 p/b £8.95.

Curtis Keeble, ed., The Soviet State. The Domestic Roots of Soviet Foreign Policy, London: Gower, 1985, 244 pp. h/b £17.50 p/b 8.95.

Adam B. Ulam, Dangerous Relations: The Soviet Union in World Politics, 1970–1982. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983 vi + 325 pp., £5–95.

Gerald Segal, ed., The Soviet Union in East Asia: Predicaments of Power. London: Heinemann, 1983. x + 150 pp., h/b £14–50 p/b £6–50.

Bruce D. Porter, The USSR in Third World Conflicts: Soviet Arms and Diplomacy in Local Wars 1945–1980. Cambridge, London, New York, New Rochelle, Melbourne, Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1984, viii + 248 pp., £20–00, $29.95.

Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr., and Uri Ra'anan, eds., National Security Policy. The Decision‐making Process, Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1984, xiv + 311 pp. £35.30.

Yosef Avidar, The Party and the Army in the Soviet Union. Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1983, 340 pp., h/b $25.00.

William Moskoff, Labour and Leisure in the Soviet Union: The Conflict Between Public and Private Decision‐Making in a Planned Economy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984, xv + 225 pp., £25.00.

Raymond Hutchings, The Soviet Budget. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1983, x + 204 pp., £25.00.

Gary Littlejohn, A Sociology of the Soviet Union. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984, ix + 286 pp., h/b £18–00, p/b £6–95.

J. P. Cole, Geography of the Soviet Union. London: Butterworths, 1984, xiv + 452 pp., £14.95.

Robert G. Jensen, Theodore Shabad and Arthur W. Wright eds., Soviet Natural Resources in the World Economy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1983, xix + 700 pp., £92.00.

Olympiad S. Ioffe and Peter B. Maggs, Soviet Law in Theory and Practice, London, Rome, New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1983, 237 pp., $35–00.

V. I. Smolyarchuk, Giganty i charodei slova. Russkie sudebnye oratory vtoroi poloviny XIX—nachala XX veka. Moscow, 1984, 272 pp., 65 kop.

Dina Kaminskaya, Final Judgement. My Life as a Soviet Defence Lawyer. London: Harvill Press, 1983, 364 pp., £12.95.

Dina Kaminskaya, Zapiski advokata. Vermont: Khronika Press, 1984, 345 pp., no price.

Gabriel Gorodetsky, Stafford Cripps’ Mission to Moscow 1940–42, Cambridge: the University Press, 1984, 377 pp., £25.00.

E. H. Carr (Edited by Tamara Deutscher), The Comintern and the Spanish Civil War. London: Macmillan, 1984, xx + 111pp., h/b £17–50, p/b £6.95.

David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime: From the February Revolution to the July Days 1917. London: Macmillan, (in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham), 1983, xii + 210 + 10 pp., £25.00.

David Mandel, The Petrograd Workers and the Soviet Seizure of Power: From the July Days 1917 to July 1918. London: Macmillan, (in association with the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham), 1984, xv + 227 + 12 pp., £25.00.

Geoffrey Swain, Russian Social Democracy and the Legal Labour Movement, 1906–14. London: Macmillan, 1983, xiv + 239 pp., £25.00.

Benjamin Pinkus, The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948–1967. A Documented Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, xvi + 612 pp., £35.00.

Jakub Blum and Vera Rich, The Image of the Jew in Soviet Literature: the Post‐Stalin Period. New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1984, 276 pp., No price quoted.

Yaacov Roi ed., The USSR and the Muslim World. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984, xv + 298 pp., £25.00.

Michael Bruchis, Nations ‐ nationalities ‐ People: A Study of the nationalities policy of the Communist Party in Soviet Moldavia. Boulder Colorado: East European Monographs, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1984, iv + 230 pp., No price quoted.

Michael J. Sodaro and Sharon L. Wolchik eds., Foreign and Domestic Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s: Trends and Prospects. London: Macmillan, 1983, x + 265 pp., £25.00.

Adam Zwass, The Economies of Eastern Europe in a time of change. London: Macmillan, 1984, ix + 170 pp., £20.00.

R. Dietz, Die Energiewirtschaft in Osteuropa und der UdSSR. Vienna and New York: Springer‐Verlag, 1984, 248 pp., $17.90, DM 49.—.

Ferenc Feher and Agnes Heller, Hungary 1956 Revisited. The Message of a Revolution—a Quarter of a Century After. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1983, xviii + 174 pp., £15.00.

Ray Taras, Ideology in a Socialist State; Poland 1956–83. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1984, x + 299 pp., £25.00.

Fred Singleton, A Short History of the Yugoslav Peoples, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, xiii + 309 pp., h/b £22.50, p/b £7.50.

Martin McCauley, The German Democratic Republic since 1945. London: Macmillan, 1983, xiv + 282 pp., £25.00.

Raymond Bentley, Technological Change in the German Democratic Republic. Boulder, Colorado and London: Westview Press, 1984, xx + 296 pp., $25.00.

Paul‐Gunther Schmidt, Internationale Wahrungspolitik im sozialistischen Staat, Stuttgart, New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985, xii + 447 pp., DM 48.

R. H. Haigh, D. S. Morris, A. R. Peters, eds., German‐Soviet Relations in the Weimar Era. Aldershot: Gower, 1985, viii + 206 pp., £15.00.

Mireille Maqua, Rome‐Moscou, l'Ostpolitik du Vatican, Liège: Cabay publishers, 1985, 248 pp., 580 F.B.

Ian Nish, The Origins of the Russo‐Japanese War, (Origins of Modern Wars Series: General Editor, Harry Hearder), Longman, London and New York, 1985. xiii + 274 pp. £6.95 paper.     

Book notices

Marc Raeff, Understanding Imperial Russia, trans. by Arnold Goldhammer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984, 248 pp. $19–95 hardback.

J. G. Tewari, Muslims under the Czars and the Soviets. Lucknow: Academy of Islamic Research and Publications, 1984, 456 pp. Rs 60.

Sucha S. Gill, Political Economy of Indo‐Soviet Relations 1947–1980. New Delhi: Rajesh Publications, 1983, 285 pp. Rs. 125.

R. G. Gidadhubli, Indo‐Soviet Trade. A Study of Select Items of Export from India in the Soviet Market. Bombay: Somaiya Publications, 1983, 246 pp. Rs. 120.

Timothy J. Colton, The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1984. 128 pp. $6.95 paperback.

Adam Bromke, Poland: the Protracted Crisis. Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1983, 260 pp.

W. E. Butler, (Ed.) The USSR, Eastern Europe and the Development of the Law of the Sea. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1984. Looseleaf, in binder, $100.

W. E. Butler, (Ed.) Basic Documents on the Soviet Legal System. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1983. 416 pp. bound $35.

James Cracraft, (Ed.), The Soviet Union Today. An Interpretive Guide. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. 348 pp. £8.50.

Romain Yakemtchouk, Transferts de Technolgies Sensibles entre l'Est et l'Ouest. Brussels: Institut Royal des Relations Internationales, 1984. 160 pp. 800 Fr.

William E. Butler, (Ed.), The Legal System of the Chinese Soviet Republic 1931–1934. Dobbs Ferry, New York: Transnational Publishers, 1984. 212 pp. £33.50 hardback.*

Dietrich Schroeer, Science Technology and the Nuclear Arms Race. New York: Wiley, 1984. 414 pp. £18.95 paperback.

Tariq Ali, (Ed.), The Stalinist Legacy. Its Impact on 20th Century World Politics. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1984. 551 pp. £4.95 paperback.

Jonathan Steele, The Limits of Soviet Power. The Kremlin's Foreign Policy—Brezhnev to Chernenko. Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1985. 290 pp. £3.50 paperback.

David Holloway, The Soviet Union and the Arms Race, revised edition (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, £3.95 paper).

Paul R. Gregory, Russian National Income, 1885–1913, Cambridge University Press, 1982. 359 pp. £22.50.

Michael Charlton, The Eagle and the Small Birds, Crisis in the Soviet Empire: from Yalta to Solidarity, British Broadcasting corporation, 1984. 192 pp. £8.75.

Victor Suvorov, Soviet Military Intelligence, Hamish Hamilton, 1984. 193 pp. £9.95.

Karl‐Ernst Schenk (Ed.), Vergleichende System—und Industriestudien—Ein ‘Institutional Choice'—Ansatz, Stuttgart & New York: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1983. 248 pp. DM. 44.00.

Paul J. Murphy (Ed.), The Soviet Air Forces, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1984. 375 pp. £39.95.

Petras Gudelis (Ed.), Joni?kelio apskrities partizanu atsiminimai, Chicago, 1983. 373 pp. 20 DM.

Detente. A journal devoted to understanding the Soviet Union. No. 1 (October‐December 1984), £1/US $2.50; four issues annually. Edited by Jeff Gleisner, Department of Politics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2.