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Essays | Winter 1977
THE SOVIET UNION

Americans in academic centers. And, more remarkably, an unprecedented surge in studies of the United States Rus- sian specialists. In each country, during the 1970s, popular ac-counts of everyday life in the other have become best sellers. Here, two young American scholars, S. Frederick Starr and William Zim- merman, analyze in turn what the Russians have been writing about the Americans, and vice versa.

THE RUSSIAN VIEW
OF AMERICA
by S. Frederick Starr
Rare is the American over 35 who cannot d...

Essays | Winter 1977
THE RUSSIAN VIEW OF AMERICA
Essays | Winter 1977
THE AMERICAN VIEW OF RUSSIA
Essays | Winter 1977
BACKGROUND BOOKS
Essays | Winter 1977
Foreign Policy and the Professional Diplomat

"I have always been regarded by the United States establishment as an oddball, and I am a strange mixture of a reactionary and a liberal," George Kennan said in a lengthy Encounter interview last September. "It is perfectly true that in my attitude toward what is going on in the United States and Western civilization . . . I am worried and profoundly pessimistic."
Long a student of Russia, Mr. Kennan w...

In Essence | Winter 1977
Making Sense Out of Welfare
In Essence | Winter 1977
Federalism Triumphant
In Essence | Winter 1977
Getting a Handle On Technology
In Essence | Winter 1977
Zero-Basing the Georgia Budget
In Essence | Winter 1977
Lifetime Legiszators

doff, in Harper's (Oct. 1976), 2 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016. Our present system of congressional reapportionment is a disaster, says Lebedoff, a Minneapolis lawyer and treasurer of the Democratic- Farmer-Labor Party of Minnesota. leaving reapportionment to be determined by state legislatures, single-party rule in every district is virtually assured. "The result is a Congress in which nearly every seat is permanently safe," Lebedoff argues. (In 1972, despite the biggest presidential...

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