Book notices

Bernd Rullkötter, Die Wissenschaftliche Phantastik der Sowjetunion. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung der spekulativen Literatur in Ost und West. (Europäische Hoch‐schulschriften, Reihe XVIII, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Bd./vol. 5.) Bern: Herbert Lang and Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, 1974. vi+303 pp. George L. Yaney, The Systematization of Russian Government: Social Evolution in the Domestic Administration of Imperial Russia, 1711–1905. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. xvi+430 pp. $13–50‐ £6.75. Peter H. Merkl, German Foreign Policies, West and East: On the Threshold of a New European Era. (Studies in Comparative Politics.) Santa Barbara, Calif. and Oxford: ABC‐Clio, 1974. ix+232 pp. £6.00. £2.30 (paperback). The Russian Revolution and the Soviet State 1917–1921. Documents. Selected and edited by Martin McCauley. London: The Macmillan Press (in association with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London). xv+315 pp. Roger E. Kanet, Soviet and East European Foreign Policy: A Bibliography of English‐and Russian‐Language Publications 1967–1971. Santa Barbara, Calif, and Oxford: ABC‐Clio, 1975. xv+208 pp. £7.30. Peter Bruhn (comp. and ed.), Russika und Sowjetika unter den deutschsprachigen Hochschulschriften (1961–1973). (Bibliographische Mitteilungen des Osteuropa‐Instituts, Heft 11.) Berlin: Osteuropa‐Institut an der Freien Universität Berlin in Kommission bei Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1975. xi+166 pp. DM 52.00. Current Soviet Leaders/Les leaders soviétiques contemporains. A Cumulative Guide to Officials and Notables in the USSR. Compiled by the Boris Levytzkyi Research Bureau, Munich. Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press. Vol. I, no. 1 (197s), 162 pp.; no. 2 (1975), 52 pp. Subscription rate $20.00 per annum. Single copies $15.00. Iv. Knizhnik, Chto chitat’ po obshchestvennym naukam: Sistematicheskii ukazatel’ kommunisticheskoi i marksistskoi literatury 1917–1923 g.g. First published in Leningrad in 1924, reprinted in Great Britain in 1972 (Slavonic Studies Reprints no. 3), Anthony C. Hall, 30 Staines Road, Twickenham, Middlesex. 491 pp. £6.30. Paul R. Gregory and Robert C. Stuart, Soviet Economic Structure and Performance. New York: Harper & Row, 1974. xii+478 pp. Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Reorientation and Commercial Relations of the Economies of Eastern Europe. Washington, D.C.: US GPO, 1974. vii+771 pp. $6.10 (paperback). La Guerre polono‐sovietique de 1919–1920. (Collection historique de l'lnstitut d'Etudes Slaves—XXII.) (Colloque organist par le Laboratoire de Slavistique (Laboratoire associ6 au C.N.R.S.), Paris—4 mai 1973.) Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1975. 150 pp. 25F. James Riordan, Sport and Physical Education in the USSR. An Outline 1975. London: Society for Cultural Relations with the USSR, 1975. Mimeographed. 46 pp.