Let the Facts Speak

Inconclusive conclusions lead to inadmissible evidence on Xinjiang The U.S. State Department lawyers have concluded there’s no evidence to prove "genocide" in Xinjiang.The UK Parliament has decided it’s a job for the lawyers not the government.     

The Plutocracy That Is U.S. Democracy

The U.S. doesn't have democracy, it has politics. Democracy is about serving the people, giving them what they want and improving their lives. China doesn't have career politicians, it has bureaucrats. Trained and skilled administrators who are elected from the bottom and selected from the top, but only if they are good enough. If they don't measure up, they lose their job.     

Reviews

The Open Media Research Institute, The OMRI Annual Survey of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union 1995: Building Democracy. Introduction by J. F. Brown. New York and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xvi + 344 pp., $85.00.

William Gay & T. A. Alekseeva, Capitalism with a Human Face: The Quest for a Middle Road in Russian Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996, xxix + 235 pp., £21.50.

Claus Offe, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1996, viii + 249 pp., £45.00 h/b, £14.95 p/b.

Harald Baldersheim, Michal Illner, Audun Offerdal, Lawrence Rose & Pawel Swianiewicz (eds), Local Democracy and the Processes of Transformation in East‐Central Europe. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, xiv + 257 pp., £48.50.

Neil Malcolm, Alex Pravda, Roy Allison & Margot Light, Internal Factors in Russian Foreign Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, ix + 356 pp., £40.00.

Pavel K. Baev, The Russian Army in a Time of Troubles. London: Sage Publications, 1996, xiii + 204 pp., £14.95.

Glen E. Schweitzer, Moscow DMZ: The Story of the International Effort to Convert Russian Weapons Science to Peaceful Purposes. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, ix + 291 pp., $21.95.

The Aspen Institute, Managing Conflict in the Post‐Cold War World: The Role of Intervention. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 1996, v + 123 pp.

Jorn Gjelstad & Olav Njolstad (eds), Nuclear Rivalry and International Order. London: Sage, 1996, x + 212 pp., £39.50.

Rick Fawn & Jeremy Larkins (eds), International Society after the Cold War. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1996, xi + 302 pp., £14.99.

Georg Brunner, Nationality Problems and Minority Conflicts in Eastern Europe. Gutersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation Publishers, 1996, 198 pp., DM25.00.

Andrew Wilson, Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s. A Minority Faith. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xvii + 300 pp., £45.00 h/b, £15.95 p/b.

Ann Louise Armstrong, Thomas A. Reiner & Janusz Szymer, Transition in Land and Housing: Bulgaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1996, iv + 298 pp.

John R. Lampe, Yugoslavia as History: Twice There was a Country. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, xx + 421 pp., £14.95.

Jonathan Aves, Workers against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship. London: I.B. Tauris, 1996, x + 220 pp., £39.50.

Francesca Gori & Sivio Pons (eds), The Soviet Union and Europe in the Cold War, 1943–53. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996, xxv + 448 pp., £45.00.

Igor Lukes, Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler. The Diplomacy of Edvard Benes in the 1930s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xiii + 318 pp., £22.50.

S. C. M. Paine, Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontier. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1996, xxi + 417 pp., $75.00.

Felix Corley, Religion in the Soviet Union: An Archival Reader. London: Macmillan, 1996, xiv + 402 pp., £45.00.

Jane Ellis, The Russian Orthodox Church: Triumphalism and Defensiveness. London: Macmillan, 1996, vi + 240 pp., £40.00.

John Gooding, Rulers and Subjects: Government and People in Russia 1801–1991. London: Arnold, 1996, xii + 387 pp.

Richard Taylor (ed.), William Powell (trans.), S. M. Eisenstein: Selected Works. Volume III: Writings, 1934–47; Volume IV: Beyond the Stars: The Memoirs of Sergei Eisenstein. London: British Film Institute, 1996, xiv + 405 pp. (vol. III), £35.00; xxi + 889 pp. (vol. IV), £45.00.

Dmitri N. Shalin (ed.), Russian Culture at the Crossroads: Paradoxes of Postcommunist Consciousness. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996, ix + 341 pp., £13.50.

H. Goscilo & B. Holmgren (eds), Russia. Women. Culture. Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1996, xiv + 386 pp., £19.50.

Pamela Chester & Sibelan Forrester (eds), Engendering Slavic Literatures. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996, xvii + 249 pp., £15.50.

John E. Bowlt & Olga Matich (eds), Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant‐Garde and Cultural Experiment. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996, xvii + 359 pp., £45.00.

Joshua Rubenstein, Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg. London: I. B. Tauris, 1996, xii + 482 pp., £19.50.

Moskva voennaya, 1941–1945: memuary i arkhivnye dokumenty. Moscow: Mosgorarkhiv, 1995, 755 pp.

Leningrad v osade: sbornik dokumentov o geroicheskoi oborone Leningrada v gody Velikoi Otechestvennoi voiny, 1941–1944. St Petersburg: Liki Rossii, 1995, 640 pp.     

Inheriting, marrying, and founding farms: women's place on the land

This article considers rural women's place on the land in south-central New York during the first half of the twentieth century. Based on a community history and ethnographic study conducted during the 1980s, the article draws on women's oral narratives to explore the connections between women's sense of agency and their relationship to the land through descent and inheritance, marriage into a landowning family, founding a farm in partnership, and the experience of dispossession.     

Defibrillator injury suggesting bite mark

A case of artefactual injury from cardiac defibrillation simulating a bite mark is presented. The case history and autopsy findings are described, and the importance of obtaining full information and of not overinterpreting suspicious injuries is emphasized.