Reviews

John Löwenhardt, Decision Making in Soviet Politics. London: Macmillan, 1981. x + 238pp. £15.00. Nikolai Tolstoi, Stalin's Secret War, Jonathan Cape, London, 1981, xvi + 463 pp. £9.50. Mark R. Elliott, Pawns of Yalta, Illinois U.P., Urbana, Chicago and London, 1982, xiii + 287 pp. £11.90. The Withering Away of the State? Party and State Under Communism, ed. Leslie Holmes. London: Sage Publications, 1981. 294 pp. £17.00 cloth, £6.95 paper. Daniel Nelson and Stephen White, Communist Legislatures in Comparative Perspective. London, Macmillan, 1982. ix + 201 pp. £20. Janos Kornai, The economics of shortage (2 vols). North Holland Publishing Co., 1980. 631 pp. Karl‐Eugen Wadekin. Agrarian Policies in Communist Europe: a Critical Introduction, Allanheld Osmun & Co., Totowa, N.J., and Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1982. xi + 324 pp. $24.95. Henry P. David and Robert J. McIntyre, Reproductive Behavior: Central and Eastern European Experience, New York, Springer Publishing Company, 1981. xix + 393 pp. $24.50. Soviet Believers: The Religious Sector of the Population, by William C. Fletcher, 1981, The Regents Press of Kansas, ix + 259 pp., $27.50. Leonid Novikov, Hochschulen in der Sowjetunion. Studien und Dokumentationen zur vergleichenden Bildungsforschung, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 1981. xv + 275 pp. DM 34,—. Edith Rogovin Frankel, Novy Mir. A Case Study in the Politics of Literature 1952–1958. Cambridge University Press, 1981. xviii + 206 pp. £19.50. Bertram D. Wolfe: Revolution and Reality: Essays on the Origin and Fate of the Soviet System. London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1981, xxi + 401 pp. £13.30. £7.00 paperback. William G. Rosenberg and Marilyn B. Young, Transforming Russia and China: Revolutionary Struggle in the Twentieth Century. New York and London, 1982. xix+397 pp. £13.00 cloth, £4.95 paperback. I. S. Koropeckyj and Gertrude E. Schroeder, eds, Economics of Soviet Regions. New York: Praeger 1981. xi +461 pp. Terence Emmons and Wayne S. Vucinich (eds), The Zemstvo in Russia: an Experiment in Local Self‐Government. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. xii + 452 pp. £25.00. Peter Raina, Independent Social Movements in Poland (London: LSE, 1981). 632 pp. £15.00. Distributed by Orbis Books (London) Ltd. A Report on the State of the Nation, London, Pluto Press, 1981, xiii + 231 pp. £4.95. Aloysius Balawyder (ed.), Cooperative Movements in Eastern Europe. London: Macmillan, 1980. x + 211 pp. £15.00. Roy E. H. Mellor, The Soviet Union and its Geographical Problems, London, Macmillan, 1982. xiv + 207 pp. £12.50 hard cover, £4.95 paperback.