Politika SSHA v Razvivaiushchikhsia Stranakh: Problemy konfliktnykh situatsii, 1945-1976 byV. A. KremeniukReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Jan., 1978), pp. 455-457Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20039890 .

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Thirteen essays by German experts on various aspects of international security, including studies of the economic aspects, of terrorism, and of the

relationship between German foreign policy and European security.

HITLER'S CHILDREN: THE STORY OF THE BAADER-MEINHOF TER RORIST GANG. By Julian Becker. New York: Lippincott, 1977, 322 pp. $10.00.

An important subject ?the history of the radical West German terrorist

group ?

popularly and rather unsatisfactorily treated. The title is misleading, and the book suffers from too much detail and not enough analysis.

THE MAKING OF ADOLF HITLER. By Eugene Davidson. New York: Macmillan, 1977, 408 pp. $17.50.

A minor contribution to our own "Hitler wave." A readable work, and the mixture of biography and historical re-creation has considerable merit.

THE PSYCHOPATHIC GOD: ADOLF HITLER. By Robert G. L. Waite. New York: Basic Books, 1977, 482 pp. $13.50.

A major psychohistorical effort to come to grips with the nature of Hitler's

psychopathology and its relation to his public career. Hitler's sexual peculiarities receive greater attention than his political skill or the historical circumstances of his rise to power. A corrective to earlier, one-sided approaches, designed "not to replace but to complement several fine biographies."

THE GERMAN WARS 1914-1945. By D. J. Goodspeed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977, 561 pp. $17.50.

A partial account of the two wars, seen as one process, and with a heavy emphasis on military narrative. At times idiosyncratically researched and

argued: France is held responsible for World War I, and the record of the half century is summed up by: "What was begun by murder is now being completed by suicide."

GUERNICA! GUERNICA! A STUDY OF JOURNALISM, DIPLOMACY, PROPAGANDA, AND HISTORY. By Herbert R. Southworth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977, 563 pp. $19.95.

A perhaps overly elaborate inquiry into the journalistic distortions in France and in some Catholic newspapers elsewhere of the German bombing of this

Spanish town in April 1937 ?one of the greatest atrocities of the Spanish Civil War.

SECRET ALLIANCE: A STUDY OF THE DANISH RESISTANCE MOVE MENT 1940-45. By J?rgen Haestrup. Odense (Denmark): Odense University Press, 1976 & 1977, 3 vols. Kr. 80 (each).

A somewhat anecdotal account of the Danish resistance, emphasizing its links to the Allies, especially through the Danish section of SOE. A tale of quiet

heroism, based largely on hitherto unused recollections, diaries and other papers.

THE SCANDINAVIAN OPTION: OPPORTUNITIES AND OPPORTUNITY COSTS IN POSTWAR SCANDINAVIAN FOREIGN POLICIES. By Barbara G. Haskel. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1976, 266 pp. Kr. 68.

A highly specialized analysis of three postwar efforts at greater Scandinavian

integration.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

John C. Campbell

THE GIANTS: RUSSIA AND AMERICA. By Richard J. Barnet. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977, 175 pp. $8.95.

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An extended essay on the Soviet-American relationship since World War II. Written with Barnet's usual verve, it is not calculated to win the plaudits of the Establishment either in Washington or in Moscow, but for this author it is

surprisingly mild in style and in judgments.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE CPSU: ASSESSMENT AND CONTEXT. Edited by Alexander Dallin. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1977, 121 pp. $5.95 (Paper).

Nine American experts analyze the Congress and, more broadly, the state of the Soviet polity and its leadership at that time (February 1976). Much more than quickie Kremlinology, these are thoughtful and penetrating essays.

THE SUPREME SOVIET: POLITICS AND THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN THE SOVIET POLITICAL SYSTEM. By Peter Vanneman. Durham

(N.C.): Duke University Press, 1977, 253 pp. $11.75. It may be but a rubber-stamp legislature, but it has a number of functions in

the political system useful to the Party and the leadership. Vanneman's careful

investigation of the Supreme Soviet (and of its Presidium now headed by Brezhnev) confirms his conclusion that they are institutions which are evolving.

POLITICAL CONTROL OF THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES: A CONFLICT OF INTERESTS. By Michael J. Deane. New York: Crane, Russak, 1977, 270 pp. $17.50.

In analyzing the role of the Main Political Administration (MPA) in the Soviet military, the author uses an "interest group" approach and stresses the

continuing problem the Party has had in asserting its control, partly because the MPA has tended to side with the military.

R.G.H.

SOVIET POLITICAL ELITES: THE CASE OF TIRASPOL. By Roland J. Hill. New York: St. Martin's, 1977, 226 pp. $16.95.

As the subtitle indicates, this is a case study of local government and politics in a single provincial city. It is of real interest because we have so few studies of this kind, but it has nothing on the nationality question or whether "Moldavians"

have any political role at all in this "typical Soviet town" in the Moldavian S.S.R.

THE RUSSIAN MIND. By Ronald Hingley. New York: Scribner's, 1977, 307

pp. $12.50. An eminent student of Russian literature, language and politics examines

the Russian character and psyche, a subject that has fascinated Westerners for centuries. It is a wide-ranging book addressing many aspects of Russian and Soviet society while wisely avoiding a central theme and firm conclusions.

PSYCHIATRIC TERROR: HOW SOVIET PSYCHIATRY IS USED TO SUPPRESS DISSENT. By Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway. New York: Basic

Books, 1977, 510 pp. $12.95. A powerful and documented book by a psychiatrist and a student of Soviet

politics on an internal matter which has developed international implications through worldwide publicity and the campaign for human rights.

THE SAMIZDAT REGISTER. Edited by Roy A. Medvedev. New York:

Norton, 1977, 314 pp. $10.95. A series of articles on Russian history and society translated from Medvedev's

clandestine journal put out in Moscow.

POLITIKA SSHA V RAZVIVAIUSHCHIKHSIA STRANAKH: PROB LEMY KONFLIKTNYKH SITUATSII, 1945-1976. By V. A. Kremeniuk. Mos dow: Mezhdunarodnye Otnosheniia, 1977, 223 pp. K?p. 76.

A Soviet scholar's view of U.S. policy in the Third World from the era of the cold war into that of d?tente. Familiar in content and rigid in its ideological

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approach stressing U.S. imperialism and hostility to socialism and to national liberation movements ? indeed almost a mirror image of concurrent American

descriptions of Soviet policy ?it nevertheless contains some interesting attempts at description, comparison and analysis of different crises.

INSIDE EAST GERMANY: THE STATE THAT CAME IN FROM THE COLD. By Jonathan Steele. New York: Urizen, 1977, 256 pp. $12.95.

A British journalist's picture of the GDR based on careful study and first hand observation. In correcting its Stalinist image in the West he gives the

country its due, and perhaps a little more, as a model authoritarian welfare state and as a junior partner, not a satellite, of the U.S.S.R.

AM?RE R?VOLUTION. By Pavel Tigrid. Paris: Albin Michel, 1977, 288 pp. Fr.45.

Essays by a prominent Czech writer on noted "revisionists" (Djilas, Imre

Nagy, Pavel Kohout, the Medvedev brothers, and others), supporting the central proposition of the impossibility of changing communist regimes into democratic systems by the path of reform, liberalization and evolution. A bitter book about bitter revolution, meant both as an expos? of reformists of the past and as a warning to those who put their hopes in the Eurocommunists of the

present.

LA PETITE ENTENTE ET L'EUROPE. By Nicolae Iordache. Geneva: Institut Universitaire de Hautes Efudes Internationales, 1977, 397 pp.

A Romanian scholar makes a major contribution to the history of interwar

diplomacy with this account of the "Little Entente." Using unpublished docu ments from the archives of Prague, Belgrade and Bucharest, he adds the

perspective of the member-states often slighted in earlier studies. But the conclusions are the same: after the rise of Hitler, it was all downhill.

THE HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION TWENTY YEARS AFTER. Edited by Nandor F. Dreisziger. Canadian-American Review of Hungarian Studies, Vol. Ill, No. 2. Ottawa: Hungarian Readers' Service, 1976, 210 pp.

A series of papers disappointingly brief but well worth reading for perspec tive on the events of 1956, which most of the authors personally experienced.

TITO'S MAVERICK MEDIA: THE POLITICS OF MASS COMMUNICA TION IN YUGOSLAVIA. By Gertrude Joch Robinson. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977, 263 pp. $12.95.

A serious and largely successful attempt to describe the transformation of the Yugoslav press and broadcasting media over the past 30 years from political to professional management, from centralized to regional organization, and from full censorship to relative freedom. Where the balance between these

opposites will be in the future of "socialist self-management" remains an open question.

The Middle East and North Africa

John C. Campbell THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, CONFLICT AND HOPE. Critical Choices for Americans: Vol. X. Edited by A. L. Udovitch. Lexington (Mass.): Lexington Books, 1976, 557 pp. $22.95.

In another hefty volume in the "Critical Choices" series, more than a score of experts write on specific regions and problems and give their varying views on what the choices are. The book has no clear message except that things are

going to be difficult, especially because of population growth. The two main

chapters on the Arab-Israeli conflict are contributed by an Israeli and an

Egyptian.

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