The End of Russian Power in Asia?

A U.S. initiative treating Russia as a serious East Asian partner, engaging in a real dialogue on security threats there, and a strong public expression of U.S. willingness to invest in the Russian Far East (RFE) in return for real guarantees of that investment, could well elicit a favorable Russian response. Such an initiative should also encourage concurrent Japanese and South Korean investment there, the author argues.     

Book reviews

Alexander R. Alexiev and S. Enders Wimbush, Eds., Ethnic Minorities in the Red Army: Asset or Liability?, a Rand Corporation Research Study and Part III in a series on Nationalities. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1988, xii + 276 pp., $24.95.

Edward Allworth, Ed., Tatars of the Crimea: Their Struggle for Survival: Original Studies from North America, Unofficial and Official Documents from Tsarist and Soviet Sources, Central Asian Book Series, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1988, xvii + 394 pp., $52.50.