Covert action's proper role in U.S. policy

Gerald Seymour: The Running Target William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1990, 336 p., $19.95.

Robert Ludlum: The Bourne Ultimatum Random House, New York, 1990, 611 p., $21.95.

Graham Ison: Confirm Or Deny

St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989, 317 p., $17.95.

David Doyle: An Accurate Watch

William Morrow and Company, New York, 1990, 408 p., $20.95.     

Book review

Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money, New Press, New York, 1998 255 pages; $25.00 cloth.     

Politics,presidents, and DCIs

Sukarno's Apologists Write Again

Audrey R. Kahin and George McT. Kahin: Subversion as Foreign Policy: The Secret Eisenhower and Dulles Debacle in Indonesia, The New Press, New York, NY, 1995, 318 pp., $25.00.

The Ames Case: Various Versions

James Adams: Sellout: Aldrich Ames and the Corruption of the CIA, Viking, New York, 1995, 322 p., $23.95.

Peter Maas: Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI's Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America's Deadliest Spy, Warner Books, New York, 1996,264 p., $6.50 (paperback; first published in hardback by Warner Books in 1995).

Tim Weiner, David Johnston, and Neil A. Lewis: Betrayal: The Story of Aldrich Ames, An American Spy, Random House, New York, 1995,308 p., $25.00.

David Wise: Nightmover: How Aldrich Ames Sold the CIA to the KGB for $4.6 Million, HarperCollins, New York, 1995,356 p., $25.00.

The Brutal March Backward

Dmitri Volkogonov: Lenin: A New Biography (Translated and edited by Harold Shukman), The Free Press, New York, 1994, 529 p., $30.00.

The Big Stretch

John Newman: Oswald and the CIA, Carroll &; Graf, New York, 1995,627 p., $28.00.

More About the Past

Oleg Gordievsky: Next Stop Execution, Macmillan, London, 1995, 396 pp., £16.99.     

Mulling over “muddling through” again

Gottfredson, Michael R. and Don M. Decision-making in Criminal Justice: Toward The Rational Exercise of Discretion, Ballinger Publishing Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1980.

Levine, James P., Michael C. Musheno, and Dennis J. Palumbo. Criminal Justice: A Public Policy Approach, Harcourt Brace Jovanavich Inc., New York, 1980.

Misner, Gordon E. Criminal Justice Studies: Their Transdisciplinary Nature, The C.V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1981.

Silberman, Charles E. Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, Random House, New York, 1978.

Schwartz, Tony. Media: The Second God, Random House, New York, 1981.     

The most important question

Terrorism and the Liberal State, by Paul Wilkinson. London: Macmil‐lan, 1977, and New York: New York University Press, 1979.

The Weapons of Terror, by Christopher Dobson and Ronald Payne. London: Macmillan, 1979.     

National Minorities and the Milošević Regime

Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central Bosnian Village. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, xxi, 281 pp. + illustrations, bibliography, index.

Robert J. Donia and John V. A. Fine, Jr., Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, xi, 318 pp. + maps, illustrations, chronology, glossary, bibliography, index.

Noel Malcolm, Bosnia: A Short History. New York: New York University Press, 1994, xxiv, 340 pp. + maps, glossary, bibliography, index.     

The imperial Japanese Navy and espionage: The Itaru Tachibana case

Hitler's secret agents

William Breuer: Hitler's Undercover War St. Martin's Press, New York, 1989, 320 p., $19.95.

The Pueblo capture: an NSA ploy?

Robert Liston: The Pueblo Surrender M. Evans And Company, Inc., New York, 1988, 272 p., $18.95.

A fresh look at the Cambridge comintern

Verne W. Newton: The Cambridge Spies: The Untold Story of Maclean, Philby, and Burgess in America Madison Books, New York, 1990, 464 p., $24.95.

KGB: Useful but flawed

Christopher Andrew and Oleg Gordievsky: KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev HarperCollins, New York, 1990,776 p., $29.95.     

Paradoxes of soviet law

The Soviet Legal System, Vol. 1: Fundamental Principles and Historical Commentary, 3rd edn, edited by J. N. Hazard, P. B. Maggs and W. E. Butler. New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1977. 608 pp. $17.50. Vol. II: Selected Contemporary Legislation and Documents, edited by W. E. Butler. New York: Oceana Publications Inc., 1978. 733 pp. $40.00.     

The End of the Age of Empire

The article was adapted from a keynote address given at the conference “1989 and Beyond” at the New School for Social Research, New York City, April 2008.     

Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power

Edward N. Luttwak, The Grand Strategy of the Soviet Union. With Appendices by Herbert Block and W. Seth Carus. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. 241 pp.

Bogdan Mieczkowski and Oleg Zinam, Bureaucracy, Technology, Ideology: Quality of Life East and West. Charleston, Ill.: Association for the Study of the Nationalities in USSR and Eastern Europe, 1984. xiii, 463 pp. Paper.

Theodore Freedman, ed., Anti‐Semitism in the Soviet Union: Its Roots and Consequences. New York, N. Y.: Freedom Library Press of the Anti‐Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, 1984. 664 pp.

Alexander Orbach, New Voices of Soviet Jewry : A Study of the Russian‐Jewish Press of Odessa in the Era of the Great Reforms, 1860–1871. Leiden: Brill, 1980. xiv, 289 pp.

Victor Zaslavsky and Robert J. Brym, Soviet‐Jewish Emigration and Soviet Nationality Policy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. vii, 185 pp.

Jakub Blum and Vera Rich, The Image of the Jew in Soviet Literature: The Post‐Stalin Period. New York: Ktav [for the Institute of Jewish Affairs, London], 1985. 276 pp.

Jack Miller, ed., Jews in Soviet Culture. Transaction Books: New Brunswick and London, 1984. 325 pp.

Rex Wade, Red Guards and Workers’ Militias in the Russian Revolution, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984. 391 pp.

Michael Bruchis, Nations — Nationalities — People: A Study of the Nationalities Policy of the Communist Party in Soviet Moldavia. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, New York, 1984. 230 pp. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Ukrainskyi istoryk [The Ukrainian Historian]. U piatdysiatelittia smerty M. Hrushevskoho [On the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Death of M. Hrushevskyi]. New York, Toronto, and Munich: Ukrainian Historical Association. 1978. Vol. XXI, nos. 1–4 (81–84). 316 pp.

Teresa Rakowska‐Harmstone, ed., Communism in Eastern Europe, Second edition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984. viii, 391 pp. Paper.

Michael J. Sodaro and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds., Foreign and Domestic Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.265 pp.

John F. N. Bradley, Czech Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century, Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1984. 200 pp. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Bogdan Szajkowski, Next to God ... Poland: Politics and Religion in Contemporary Poland. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. x, 264 pp.

Alex N. Dragnich. The First Yugoslavia: Search for a Viable Political System. Stanford: California: Hoover Institution Press, 1983, 182 pp.

Theodore George Tatsios, The Megali Idea and the Greek‐Turkish War of 1897: The Impact of the Cretan Problem on Greek Irredentism, 1866–1897. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1984. ix, 302 pp. Distributed by Columbia University Press.

Justin McCarthy. Muslims and Minorities. The Population of Ottoman Anatolia at the End of the Empire. New York and London: New York University Press, 1983. $35.00.

M. Mark Stolarik, Growing Up On The South Side: Three Generations of Slovaks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1880–1976 Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1985, 129 pp.     

I Eastern Europe: Backwardness and the Challenges of Modern Politics

Roger East and Jolyon Pontin, eds, Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe, rev. edn. London: Pinter, 1997.

Philip Longworth, The Making of Eastern Europe. From Prehistory to Post‐communism, 2nd edn. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Gale Stokes, Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.     

Reviews

Taras Hunczak, ed., Russian Imperialism. From Ivan the Great to the Revolution. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 974. 396 pp. $ 17.50.

Jaan Pennar, Ivan I. Bakalo, and George Z. P. Bereday, Modernization and Diversity in Soviet Education; with Special Reference to Nationality Groups. New York: Praeger, 1971. 400 pp. $ 20.00.

Ralph S. Clem, ed., The Soviet West: Interplay between Nationality and Social Organization. New York: Praeger, 1975. 161 pp. $ 15.00.

Jozo Tomaseyich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945. The Chetniks. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. 508 pp. $ 20.00.

William O. Oldson, The Historical and Nationalistic Thought of Nico‐lae Iorga. Boulder, Colorado: East European Quarterly. Distribution by Columbia University Press, New York, 1973. 135 pp. $ 10.00.

Bennett Kovrig, The Myth of Liberation; East Central Europe in U.S. Diplomacy and Politics Since 1941. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. 360 pp. $ 11.50.

Robert A. LeVine & Donald T. Campbell, Ethnocentrism: Theories of Conflict, Ethnic Attitudes and Group Behavior. New York: John Wiley, 1972. 310 pp. $ 12.00.     

Border communities: microstudies on everyday life,politics and memory in European Societies from 1945 to the present

Louis L. Snyder, Encyclopedia of Nationalism. New York: Paragon House, 1990, bibliography, XXII, 445 pp., $35.00

Pearson, Thomas S., Russian Officialdom in Crisis: Autocracy and Local Self‐Government, 1861–1900. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. 284 pp.

Charles A. Ruud, Russian Entrepreneur Publisher Ivan Sytin of Moscow 1851–1934. Montreal &; Kingston: McGill‐Queen's University Press, 1990.

George Jackson, editor, Dictionary of the Russian Revolution. New York, Westport, and London: Greenwood Press. 1989, xviii, 704 pp., $75.00.

Adam Westoby, The Evolution of Communism. New York: The Free Press, 1989, 318 pp., $22.95

Mark von Hagen, Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917–1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990, index, xviii, 367 pp.

Marvin Sicker, The Strategy of Soviet Imperialism: Expansion in Eurasia. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1988, viii, pp. 172

Samuel Farber, Before Stalinism. The Rise and Fall of Soviet Democracy. New York: Verso, 1990, 288 pp.

Neil Fodor, The Warsaw Treaty Organization: A Political and Organizational Analysis. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990; xv, 235 pp., $45.00.

Henry R. Huttenbach, ed., Soviet Nationality Policies: Ruling Ethnic Groups in the USSR. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1990; xvi, 302 pp.

Alexander Shtromas &; Morton A. Kaplan, eds., The Soviet Union &; the Challenge of the Future, Vol. 3, Ideology, Culture &; Nationality. New York: Paragon House, 1989, xxxix, 760 pp., index, $39.95.

Alfred Erich Senn, Lithuania Awakening. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1990, illustrations, index, 294 pp.

Robert A. Vitas, The United States and Lithuania: The Stimson Doctrine of Nonrecognition. New York: Praeger, 1990, 176 pp.

Pedro Ramet, ed., Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies: Christianity Under Stress. Volume II. Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990; index, ix, 454 pp.

Martha B. Olcott (ed.), The Soviet Multinational State: Readings and Documents. Armonk, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1990. xii and 605 pp.

Bohdan Nahaylo and Victor Swoboda, Soviet Disunion: A History of the Nationalities Problem in the USSR. New York: Free Press, 1990, 432 pp. Illustrated, $29.85

Erhard Stölting, Eine Weltmacht zerbricht. Nationalitäten und Religionen in der UdSSR. Frankfurt/Man, Eichborn Verlag, 311 pp., 29,80 DM

Vladimir Tismaneanu, In Search of Civil Society: Independent Peace Movements in the Soviet Bloc. New York: Routledge, Chapman, and Hall, 1990, index, x, 184 pp., $35.00

Murray Feshback and Alfred Friendly Jr., Ecocide in the USSR: Health and Nature Under Siege. New York: Basic Books, 1992, 376 pages, $24.00.

Philip R. Pryde. Environmental Management in the Soviet Union. Foreword by Zeev Wolfson. Cambridge, UK &; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991; preface, xx, 314 pp., maps, tables, photos, index and biblio. $49.50 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Ellen Frankel Paul, Ed., Totalitarianism at the ‘Crossroads. New Brunswick (US) &; London: Transition Books, 1990.

Jorgen Kühl, De tyske mindretal i Sovjetunionen ["The German minorities in the Soviet Union"] with a summary in German. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 1990; xxxi, 159 pp.

Samvel Shakhmuradian, Sumgaitskaia Tragedia v Svidetel'stvakh Ochevidtzev ("Sumgait Through the Eyes of the Victims"). Erevan: Armianskii Fond Kul'tury, 1989.

Stephen White, John Gardner, George Schopflin and Tony Saich, Communist and Postcommunist Political Systems, An Introduction. Third Edition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990, xi, 357 pp.

Karl Kaser, Südosteuropäische Geschichte und Geschichts‐Wissenschafi: Eine Einführung. Wien &; Koln:Bohlau Verlag, 1990, maps, graphs, 308 pp.

Marko Pavlyshyn, Glasnost in Context: On the Recurrence of Liberalizations in Central and East European Literatures and Cultures. Berg European Studies Series. New York, Oxford, Munich: Berg, 1990, bibliography, index, xi, 182 pp, cloth.

Milo Kominek, I Pod Oblohou Je Peklo. Dokumentace. Second Enlarged Edition. Toronto: Moravia Publishing, In., 1991; 318 pp., $23.00.

Ralf Dahrendorf, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe in a Letter Intended to have been Sent to a Gentleman in Warsaw. New York: Random House, Inc., 1990; 163 pp., $17.95

István Deák, Beyond Nationalism, A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848–1918. Oxford, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990; XII, 273 pp.

Trond Gilberg, Nationalism and Communism in Romania: The Rise and Fall of Ceausescu's Personal Dictatorship, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990, x, 289 pp.

Johann Böhm, Das Nationalsozialistische Deutschland und die Deutsche Volksgruppe in Rumänien 1936–1944: Das Verhältnis der Deutschen Volksgruppe zum Dritten Reich und zum rumänischen Stoat sowie der interne Widerstreit zwischen den politischen Gruppen. (Europäische Hochschulschriften: Series 3, Geschichte und ihre Hilfswissenschaften, vol. 223) Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1985. 264 pp. maps.

Gale Stokes, Politics as Development. The Emergence of Political Parties in Nineteenth‐Century Serbia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990, 1 map, bibliography, index, 400 pp.

William Zimmerman, Open Borders, Nonalignment, and the Political Evolution of Yugoslavia. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987

Jack Wertheimer, Unwelcome Strangers: East European Jews in Imperial Germany. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987, statistical tables, index, ix, 181 pp.,$42.00.

Alfred D. Low, Soviet Jewry and Soviet Policy. Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, No. 281, 1990, xv, 216 pp., notes, bibliography, index, $32.00

Anthony Polonsky, ed., ’My Brother's Keeper?’ Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust. NY and London: Routledge, 1990, index, 242 pp.

Ronald Sanders, Shores of Refuge: A Hundred Years of Jewish Emigration. New York: Schocken Books, 1988. xiii, 673 pp.

Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, The History and Sociology of Genocide: Analyses and Case Studies. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990; xviii, 461 pp.

Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990, index, 191 pp.

Stanislaw Baranczak, Breathing Under Water and Other East European Essays. Cambridge &; London: Harvard University Press, 1990; notes, index, 245 pp., cloth

Jan Kott, ed., Four Decades of Polish Essays. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press; xi, 396 pp., $49.95 ($15.95, paper).

Aurel Braun, Ed. The Soviet‐East European Relationship in the Gorbachev Era: The Prospects for Adaptation. Boulder, CO, San Francisco, London: Westview Press, 1990. XI, 249 pp., $20.00 (paper).     

A note on the alleged decomposition of sociology

The Decomposition of Sociology, by Irving Lewis Horowitz, 1993, New York. Oxford University Press.     

The contributions of Oscar Halecki to American historical scholarship

Mellor, Roy E. H., Eastern’ Europe: A Geography of the Comecon Countries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, 358 p. $17.50, cloth. $9.00, paper.

Gonen, Jay Y., A Psychohistory of Zionism. New York: Mason/Charter, 1975, 374 p., $15.00.

Paulu, Burton, Radio and Television Broadcasting in Eastern Europe. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1974, 592 p., $22.95.     

Reviews

Mellor, Roy E. H., Eastern’ Europe: A Geography of the Comecon Countries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, 358 p. $17.50, cloth. $9.00, paper.

Gonen, Jay Y., A Psychohistory of Zionism. New York: Mason/Charter, 1975, 374 p., $15.00.

Paulu, Burton, Radio and Television Broadcasting in Eastern Europe. Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press, 1974, 592 p., $22.95.     

Review and commentary

“A” in politics, “C” in science

Michael R. Beschloss: Mayday: Eisenhower, Khruschev and the U‐2 Affair Harper & Row, New York, 1986, 494 p., $19.95.

Plausible deniability and waging war

Prados, John: A Review of Presidents’ Secret Wars. William Morrow and Co., New York, 1987 436 p., $19,95.

Mission impossible?

Nicholas Bethell: Betrayed. Times Books, New York, 1985, 206 p., $15.95

Spies, Deja Vu

Thierry Welton: Le KGB en France Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1986,340 p., 480 Fr.

She had no future, but oh what a past!

Russell Warren Howe: Mata Hari: The True Story Dodd & Mead, New York, 1986,292 p., $17.95.

Away but not forgotten

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

Cryptanalysis reexplored

Thomas Parrish: The Ultra Americans: The U.S. Role in Breaking the Nazi Codes Stein and Day, New York, 1986, p. 338, $19.95.

Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman: The FBI‐KGB War: A Special Agent's Story Random House, New York, 1986, p. 320, $18.95

Cipher A. Deavours and Louis Kruh: Machine Cryptography and Modern Cryptanalysis Artech House, Dedham, Md., 1985, 259 pp.     

Terrorist sympathizers in The Netherlands

Abstract

The following remarks are excerpted from the 1987 Annual Conference on Domestic and International Terrorism sponsored by the Anti‐Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer Foundation of the Anti‐Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, in cooperation with the Institute for Studies in International Terrorism at the State University of New York (SUNY) and the U.S. Global Strategy Council. The meeting was held on December 14, 1987 in Washington, D.C., and chaired by Professor Yonah Alexander of State University of New York and The George Washington University.     

Generalizing about peasant movements

Latin American Peasant Movements edited by Henry Landsberger. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1969. Pp. xi, 476; $12.0 and £5–95. Agrarian Problems and Peasant Movements in Latin America edited by Rodolfo Stavenhagen. New York and London: Doubleday‐Anchor, 1970. Pp. xi, 583; $2.45 and £1.25. Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century by Eric Wolf. New York: Harper and Row, 1969, and London: Faber & Faber, 1971. Pp. xix, 328; $4.45 and £3.00. Zapata and the Mexican Revolution by John Womack Jr. New York: Vintage Books, 1969, and London: Thames & Hudson, 1970. Pp. 457; £4.20.     

Social Capital,Civic Engagement and the Performance of Local Self-Government in Azerbaijan

Victor M. Fic. Revolutionary War for Independence and the Russian Question: Czechoslovak Army in Russia 1914–1918. New Delhi: Albhinav Publications, (E. 37 Hauz Khas), 1977. Pg. xv, 270. $12.

Thomas Spira. German‐Hungarian Relations and the Swabian Problem: From Karolyi to Gömbös 1919–1936. Boulder: East European Quarterly, Distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1977. Pp. 382. $18.50.

Robert A. Kann, Béla A. Király, Paul S. Fichtner, eds. The Habsburg Empire in World War I. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977. Pp. xiv, 247. $17.50.