... plans. To prove their contention, they recalled episodes from the period when Britain and France were actively intervening in their civil war. In 1922 the U.S.S.R. had allied herself with Germany and thus had joined the camp of have not countries, which were outside the League and hostile...

... periods of the Soviet regime down to the present, employing an impressive display of sources. He includes a long and detailed discussion of Soviet foreign policy in the West and also treats other topics, less well known but of considerable significance: the constitutional development of the U.S.S.R., its...

... and art of the U.S.S.R. Hence their hateful attacks against the cul­ ture of the great Russian people, the most outstanding of all nations in the Soviet Union. In the so-called popular democratic countries, this new concept of Russian versus capitalist culture has had some significant interpre­ tations...

...., here pleads for a view of the U.S.S.R. less hostile than the one prevalent in the United States today. Instead of emotional hostility, he calls for objectivity in seeking the truth, which he holds to be discernable in spite of the obstacles on both sides. He urges a willingness to approach the U.S.S.R...

... and in the readiness of the U.S.S.R. to mesh its gears with those of other nations in a drive toward world peace. Since informed opinion in the early 1940 s generally shared the same illusions, 478 The South Atlantic Quarterly further investigation also may help to clarify the processes of popular thought which...

... worker is depicted as an individual who as a result of the Bolshevik revolution is no longer a slave of his capitalist em­ ployer; he has become a free worker. Soviet propaganda empha­ sizes that the U.S.S.R., in contrast with other governments, has solved the problem of labor, that only under the Soviet...

... ideological when dealing with the U.S.S.R. Rostow had contended that Soviet suspicions are preventing the U.S.S.R. from entering the stage of mass consumption because Communism is likely to wither in this stage.12 Ohlin questioned whether political or eco­ nomic reasons are responsible for holding consumption...

... Austrian, served for fifteen years as Moscow correspondent of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse until his ex­ pulsion from the U.S.S.R. in 1937. Out of the experiences and observa­ tions of this period he has produced a lively and remarkably objective biography of Stalin, which, on the whole, agrees...

... School, has based his study primarily on Soviet publications, including legislation, textbooks, reports of court cases, other official sources, as well as the less reliable recollections of former citizens of the U.S.S.R. now in emigration. While there is no documen­ tation, the author has done...

... Press, 1953. Pp. xi, 256. $5.00. When one compares the great possibilities for good inherent in American recognition of the U.S.S.R. with the meager results, it is obvious that serious errors occurred. To explain how and why they were made is the task undertaken by Robert Paul Browder. It has been...

... the earlier economic independence enjoyed by women will return has not yet been made clear by the authors of the U.S.S.R. Next, Bernard J. Choseed discusses the Jews in Soviet literature. At first they were regarded as wryly humorous, humble men, bewildered by the Revolution, but soon the figure of the Jewish...

... in the U.S.S.R. of a sizable technical staff, along with periodic visits by consulting engineers from Britain. The company enjoyed a good reputation and strove manfully to satisfy exacting Soviet requirements for equipment of new and difficult types. Its installations had not been trouble-free...

...: the association of West Germany with NATO would prove so strong an attraction to East Germany that the U.S.S.R. would soon see the desirability of adding its eighteen million Germans to the Western alliance. The logic of this position was never questioned, because it was not supposed to be accepted on rational...

... to a sudden end with the Finnish war of 1939-1940. Yet, during the Second World War the two countries co-operated well and joined in setting up the United Nations. Mr. Lamont holds that there is no real reason for conflict between them. He believes that the U.S.S.R. is not seeking to conquer the world...

... and his cabinet were Communists with the inclusion also of a few Communist sympathizers. They were no more Communist and not much less Communist than the cabinet of the U.S.S.R. But what kind of Communists were they? Would their nationalism in­ evitably clash with their communism with the result...

..., The Growth of the Red Army (Princeton, 1944). Theodore Ropp. The Police State: What You Want to Know about the Soviet Union. By Craig Thompson. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1950. Pp. 258. $3.00. As Mr. Thompson s title suggests, this book makes no pretense to neutrality toward the U.S.S.R. During...

... the challenge, and the United States was concerned with Iran chiefly as a channel for the flow of munitions to the U.S.S.R. 408 The South Atlantic Quarterly Conditions in Iran deteriorated rapidly, with inflation and the apparent Soviet ascendancy demoralizing many of the population, while the proSoviet Tudeh...

... and an analysis of the financial system of the U.S.S.R. The major topics covered are the banking and credit system, Soviet money, the national budget, Soviet financial and trade relations with the rest of the world, and recent Soviet economic policies. While these subjects have been dealt with by earlier authors...

.... The Soviet Financial System: Its Develo'pment and Relations with the Western World. By Mikhail V. Condoide. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1951. Pp. xiii, 224. $4.00. This study presents both a history and an analysis of the financial system of the U.S.S.R. The major topics covered are the banking...

... life in the U.S.S.R. has nevertheless in the last two decades under the leadership of such gifted directors as Georgi Tovstonogov (Leningrad) and Yury Lyubimov of the Moscow Taganka Theatre tried to retrieve its links with a great and brilliant tradition. Theatre in the U.S.S.R. is a state enterprise...