The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost by Walter LaqueurReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 68, No. 4 (Fall, 1989), p. 210Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20044160 .

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210 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

EUROPE, EUROPE: FORAYS INTO A CONTINENT. By Hans Magnus Enzensberger. New York: Pantheon, 1989, 326 pp. $18.95.

A distinguished German writer collects pieces of political-cultural trave

logues composed over the past seven years covering various European countries, East and West. Uneven accounts, some memorable

vignettes, some amusing badinage, as when a Hungarian Communist tells him: "The

Party is our social escalator, better than the Harvard Business School."

MEMORIES AND ADVENTURES. By Winston S. Churchill. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989, 272 pp. $19.95.

His adventures?not negligible, but hardly worth recording except for the great gift bestowed on him: a famous, loving grandfather whose pres ence eased the author's path and enlivens the book. Echoes of the great

man, as in the grandson's reporting of the Six Day War. He finally made it to the House of Commons.

LA PISCINE: THE FRENCH SECRET SERVICE SINCE 1944. By Roger Faligot and Pascal Krop. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989, 344 pp. $24.95.

An anecdotal account of the French secret service by two French jour nalists. The English translation carries the story to the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe lohn C. Campbell

THE LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM: RUSSIA AND GLASNOST. By Walter Laqueur. New York: Scribners, 1989, 325 pp. $21.95.

The reader is well served by the author's confining himself to one aspect of the Gorbachev revolution, glasnost, for it enables him to go more deeply than other studies have into the effects of the new openness on various sectors of the establishment and of Soviet society. It is done with Laqueur's customary breadth of historical perspective, reaching back into the Russian

past, and with his understanding of the role of the intelligentsia and of

cultural change. Recent revelations and the new freedom of expression have at times been breathtaking, but Laqueur rightly stresses the limits of

the process; in Gorbachev's words, it is "glasnost in the interest of social

ism."

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE: CHANG ING VALUES IN POST-STALIN RUSSIA. By Vladimir Shlapentokh.

New York: Oxford, 1989, 281 pp. $24.95. A sociologist's study loaded with citations and statistics may be of interest

primarily to other sociologists, but this survey of Soviet society from the

end of Stalin's era to the beginning of Gorbachev's has special significance in documenting the shift in attitudes toward privatization and consumerism

that underlies much of what is happening today. One interesting point is

that in foreign policy and defense, in contrast to domestic matters, there

has been very little change in the people's acceptance of the official line, whatever it may be at any given time. The author, who worked in the

Soviet academic establishment until he emigrated in 1979, is thoroughly

acquainted with the voluminous Soviet material, especially polling results, on which this work is based.

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