Reviews

The October revolution as the background of the institutional setting E. N. Gorodetsky, Rozhdenie sovetskogo gosudarstva: 1917–18. Moscow, ‘Nauka’, 1965. 531 pp. 21. Henry W. Ehrmann (ed.), Democracy in a Changing Society. London, Pall Mall Press, 1965. 210 pp. 37s. 6d. Raymond L. Garthoff, Soviet Military Policy. A Historical Analysis. London, Faber & Faber, 1966. 276 pp. 42s. Frederick C. Barghoorn, Politics in the USSR. The Little Brown Series in Comparative Politics, Little Brown & Company, Boston and Toronto. 418 pp. H. Gordon Skilling, The Governments of Communist East Europe. Cromwell Comparative Government Series, New York, 1966. 256 pp. $2.00 (paperback). P. A. Sorokin (hon. ed.) and N. P. Poltoratzsky (ed.), Na temy russkie i obshchie. Sbornik statei i materialov v chest’ prof. N. S. Timasheva. New York, Obshchestvo druzei russkoi kul'tury, 1965. 430 pp. $4.75. Terence Armstrong, Russian Settlement in the North. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1965. 244 pp. $9.50. Richard Freeborn, A Short History of Modern Russia. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1966. 288 pp. 35s. Hans Roos, A History of Modern Poland. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1966. 303 pp. 42s. George D. Jackson, Jr., Comintern and Peasant in East Europe 1919–1930. New York and London, Columbia University Press, 1966. xii+339 pp. 63s. Alvin Z. Rubinstein (ed.), The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Union. 2nd edition. Random House, New York, 1966. 458 pp. $4.95 (Text Edition Paperbound). Robert Paul Browder, The Origins of Soviet‐American Diplomacy. Princeton Paperback No. 38. Princeton University Press and London, OUP, 1966.256 pp. $2.95. 22s. 6d. Calvin Hoover, Memoirs of Capitalism, Communism, and Nazism. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1965. 302 pp. $8.50. Peter Latham, Travel, Business, Study and Art in the U.S.S.R. London, Blackie, 1966. xiv+383 pp. Pierre Rondière, Siberia. London, Constable, 1966. 205 pp. 35s. Bernard Berelson and others (eds.), Family Planning and Population Programs. A Review of World Developments. University of Chicago Press, 1966. xvi+848 pp. $12.50.90s.