Reviews

Pekka Sutela, Economic Thought and Economic Reform in the Soviet Union. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, 197 pp., £30.00 h/b, £10.95 p/b.

Stephen White, Gorbachev and After. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991, ix+310 pp., £27.95 h/b, £8.95 p/b.

Catherine Merridale & Chris Ward, eds, Perestroika. The Historical Perspective. London, New York, Melbourne, Auckland: Edward Arnold, 1991, xiii+253 pp., £12.95 p/b.

Guy Standing, ed., The New Soviet Labour Market. In Search of Flexibility. Geneva: ILO, 1991, xiv+440 pp., SF45.00.

Leonard Geron, Soviet Foreign Economic Policy under Perestroika. London: Chatham House Papers, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Pinter Publishers, 1990, 126 pp., £19.50, h/b, £7.95 p/b.

Malcolm R. Hill, Soviet Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Western Export Controls. Aldershot: Avebury, 1991, xv+256 pp., £35.00.

Gerhard Simon, Nationalism and Policy toward the Nationalities in the Soviet Union: From Totalitarian Dictatorship to Post‐Stalinist Society, translated by K. and O. Forster. Boulder, CO, and Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, xvii+483 pp., £22.50 p/b.

A. Kemp‐Welch, Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia 1928–39. London: Macmillan, 1991, vi + 338 pp., £45.00.

Jelena Milojkovic‐Djuric, Aspects of Soviet Culture: Voices of glasnosf, 1960–1990. New York: East European Monographs, Columbia University Press, 1991, iv+190 pp., $29.00.

Landon Pearson, Children of Glasnost. Growing up Soviet. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1991, xv+505 pp., $16.95, p/b.

Robert Rand, Comrade Lawyer. Inside Soviet Justice in an Era of Reform. Oxford: Westview Press, 1991, x+166 pp., £9.50 p/b.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch & Richard Stites, eds, Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991, viii+344 pp., £22.50 h/b, £9.50 p/b.

Efraim Karsh, Soviet Policy towards Syria since 1970. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1991, 229 pp.+index, £35.00.

Ronald D. Bachman, ed., Romania: A Country Study, 2nd edition. Washington, DC: US Library of Congress Federal Research Division, 1991, xxxvi+356 pp.     

Thematic memory for politics in children

This paper reports on an experiment designed to test the way (fourth grade) children congnitively process various kinds of information about politics. Our findings provide evidence that children integrate symbols from their immediate political environment into themes. These themes may then serve to organize their political knowledge and mediate receipt of new information. We did not find similar evidence of thematic integration for adult political symbols. These findings raise questions about the degree to which events in the adult political world will directly affect children's developing orientations toward that world.     

关于加强和改进党的地方代表大会和委员会制度建设问题的调研报告

加强和改进党的代表大会和委员会制度建设,是马克思主义政党建党的重要内容和发展党内民主的基础性环节,是保持党的先进性、提高党的执政能力的重要途径.党的十六大以来,各地党组织按照中央要求,积极探索党的代表大会常任制新途径,完善党的地方各级全委会、常委会工作机制,取得了一定成效.从全面贯彻党的十七大精神和党面临新形势新任务的实际出发,坚持以改革创新精神切实解决好党的地方代表大会和委员会制度在实际运行中存在的问题,必须要制定实行党的代表大会代表任期制的实施办法,充分发挥党代表的作用;进一步改进党的地方代表大会的组织工作,切实提高会议质量;试行党代表大会常任制,积极探索发挥党代会作用的途径和方式;强化地方党委全委会的职能,充分发挥全委会的决策和监督作用;健全地方党委常委会工作机制,进一步加强领导班子的集体领导作用.     

中国道路十章——马克思主义中国化经典文献回眸(一、二)

站在二十一世纪第二个十年的起点,回望马克思主义在中国的发展,检视中国共产党引领中国人民走过的九十年的这条道路,总让人心潮难平,感慨万千。概括和描述这条道路,可以有多种方式。我们选择的,是镌刻在每一个十字路口、每一个历史的拐弯处一篇篇凝聚着中国共产党人心血和智慧的重要文献,它们仿佛一块块路标,指示着前进的方向。它们前后承接的足迹,正是马克思主义中国化道路的路线图。本文以中国近代以来的历史发展为大背景,对马克思主义中国化的一些经典文献进行解读和回顾,拟分五期连载,希望对理解和思考中国道路有所助益。