Reviews of new research at public agencies and private institutions
RUSSIA UNDER WESTERN EYES. By Martin Malia. Harvard Univ. Press. 514 pp. $35
DR. FREUD: A Life. By Paul Ferris. Counterpoint. 464 pp. $30
FREUD: Conflict and Culture. Edited by Michael S. Roth. Knopf. 272 pp. $26
AN EMPIRE WILDERNESS: Travels into America’s Future. By Robert D. Kaplan. Random House. 384 pp. $27.50
THE HAUNTED WOOD: Soviet Espionage in America–The Stalin Era. By Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev. Random House. 402 pp. $30
VENONA: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America. By John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. Yale Univ. Press. 487 pp. $30
THE PRIDE OF HAVANA: A History of Cuban Baseball. By Roberto González Echevarría. Oxford Univ. Press. 464 pp. $35
By Daniel Horowitz. Univ. ofMassachusetts Press. 400 pp. $29.95
LETTER TO A MAN IN THE FIRE: Does God Exist and Does He Care? By Reynolds Price. Scribner. 112 pp. $20
ISAIAH BERLIN: A Life. By Michael Ignatieff. Metropolitan Books. 356 pp. $30
AT HOME WITH THE MARQUIS DE SADE: A Life. By Francine du Plessix Gray. Simon & Schuster. 491 pp. $27.50
SADE: A Biographical Essay. By Laurence L. Bongie. Univ. of Chicago Press. 336 pp. $29