producing an end to detente and a return to the Cold War. Detente, contends Cook, permits the Russians to pursue other world ventures without risk and encourages the West- em trade and credits essential to the economic well-being of Eastern Europe.
Since the election defeat, Cook writes, "Marchais has dropped all the cosmetics and returned to his true Stalinist colors-to thi irrita- tion and bitterness of comrades who really believed in Eurocommu- nism. . . ." The French Communist Party...