Book reviews

Theory and practice of planning Problèmes Théoriques et Pratiques de la Planification. Second Edition. By Charles Bettelheim (Presses Universitaires de France). 1951, pp. 379, 1200 francs. Secondary school textbooks on history 1. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Professor A. V. Yefimov, Modern History, Part I. Textbook for the 8th class . . . Approved by the Min. of Ed. of the RSFSR. Eighth revised edition. Uchpedgiz, Moscow, 1949, 291 pp. and 9 maps. (Yef.) 2. Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Professor I. S. Galkin, Professor L. I. Zubok, Professor F. I. Notovich, Professor V. M. Khvostov, Modern History, Part II. Textbook for the 9th class . . . Ed. by V. M. Khvostov. Fifth edition. Approved by the Min. of Ed. of the RSFSR. Uchpedgiz, Moscow, 1950, 215 pp. and 4 maps. (Kh.) 3. Institute of History ... Professor K. V. Bazilevich, Professor S. V. Bakhrushin, Professor A. M. Pankratova, Reader A. V. Fokht, History of the USSR, Part II. Textbook for the 9th class . . . Ed. by Professor A. M. Pankratova. Approved by the Min. of Ed. of the RSFSR. Uchpedgiz, Moscow, 1949, 327 pp. and 5 maps. (P. II.) 4. Institute of History... Professor K. V. Bazilevich, Professor S. V. Bakhrushin, Professor A. M. Pankratova, Reader A. V. Fokht, History of the USSR, Part III. Textbook for the 10th class . . . Ed. by Professor A. M. Pankratova. Seventh edition. Uchpedgiz, Moscow, 1948, 407 pp. and 7 maps. (P. III.) 5. Atlas of the History of the USSR, Part I . . . General editors, Professor K. V. Bazilevich, I. A. Golubtsov, M. A. Zinovev . . . Moscow, 1949. 27 maps. 6. Atlas ... Part II . . . 18 maps. Institute for the Study of the History and the Institutions of the USSR, Munich. Materials of the Conference of Emigre Scientific Workers, Munich, January 11–14, 1951; First Session [on general problems of ideology], Issue V (Economic Section), Issue VI (Section of Arts and Letters). Investigations and Materials: V. M. Grechko, Communist Education in the USSR; G. Shults, Public Health and anti‐Epidemic Measures; P. Galin, Census of the USSR's Population; P. L. Kovan‐kovsky, The Financial System of the USSR During World War II; B. Mikorsky, The Destruction of Cultural and Art Memorials in Kiev in the years 1934–36; G. Saaruni, Struggle of the Armenian Church against Bolshevism. All in Russian, Copyright by the Institute, Munich 37, Schliess‐fach 5. Power pure and simple Boris Meissner, Russland im Umbruch: Der Wandel in der Herrschaftsordnung und sozialen Struktur der Sowjetunion (Russia in Transformation: the Change in the Order of Rule and in the Social Structure of the USSR). Dokumente und Berichte des Europa‐Archives, vol. 9, Verlag fur Geschichte und Politik, Frankfurt a/Main, 1951, 91 pp. Leadership amongst children Kniga Vozhatovo (The Pioneer Leader's Book), published by Molodaya Gvardia ('Young Guard’ Press of the Young Communist League Central Committee), 1951, 539 pp., 14 rubles. Sovetsky Metod Industrializatsii, K. A. Petrosyan, Gospolitizdat, 1951, 271 pp. Serial Publications of the Soviet Union 1939–1951: a Preliminary Checklist, compiled by Rudolf Smits, published by The Library of Congress Reference Department, Washington, 1951, pp. ix+316.