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The Kronstadt Rebellion by Emanuel PollackReview by: Robert F. ByrnesThe Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1960), p. 83Published by: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/304080 .

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until 1882, when he replaced Prince A. M. Goriakov as foreign minister.

The letters are divided into two groups, one, written be- tween May 1876 and the summer of 1878, dealing with the Bal- kan Crisis and the Congress of Berlin, and the other, written in 1879 and 1880, dealing with the settlement of the Balkan prob- lem, negotiations for the renewal of the Dreikaiserbund, and the Kuldja crisis with China. The letters which were made avail- able to the Jelaviches of the University of California in Berkeley by the grandson of N. K. Giers, Serge Giers, have been published in full, except for some military detail, and the various groups of letters are preceded by brief excellent introductions. The footnotes are useful, and the editors have also provided a val- uable description of the Giers collection and the uses thus far made of it. The volume as a whole is a welcome addition to the materials available on the history of Russia in the nineteenth century.

Emanuel Pollack. The Kronstadt Rebellion (The First Armed Revolt Against Soviets). New York: Philosophical Library [c. 1959]. iii, 98, $3.00.

This brief narrative seeks to describe the rebellion of the sailors and garrison on Kronstadt island against Communist rule in March, 1921. The book is violent in its criticism of Communist rule. Its research is so careless and shallow that the volume is useless, and one wonders why it was published.

Alexander Dallin, comp. Soviet Conduct in World Affairs: A Selection of Readings. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1960. x, 318, $4.50.

This is a collection of scholarly essays of interpretation of Soviet foreign policy written and published between 1947 and 1958. The volume was compiled and published by Professor Alexander Dallin of the Russian Institute of Columbia University as a convenience for students of Russian foreign policy.

The book contains some most significant and stimulating interpretations, such as those by George Kennan, former Amer- ican Ambassador to the Soviet Union; Michael Karpovich, late Curt Hugo Reisner Professor of Slavic Languages and Litera- tures at Harvard University; Philip E. Mosely, Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; Robert C. Tucker, Associate Professor of Government at Indiana University; and Marshall Shulman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University. Some of the other essays, it seemed to this reviewer, were not important. However, Pro- fessor Dallin has also provided a list of nine other interpreta- tions for those interested.

Robert F. Byrnes Indiana University

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