Scenarios, statistics, and theories abound in U.S. discussions of the Soviet Union. But such abstract (and often abstracted) in- formation cannot fully convey what it is like to live in Soviet society. The Wilson Quarterly invited John Glad, a specialist in Slavic literature, to fill out the picture with illustrative excerpts from recent Russian fiction. Three of Professor Glad's choices- those Natalya Baranskaya, Arkady Arkanov, and Fyodor Ab- ramov-first appeared in Soviet publications. The current...
THE SOVIET FUTURE "Homeland of patience" was the 19th- century Russian poet Fedor Tiut- chev's sorrowful epithet for his country. As Berkeley historian Nicholas V. Riasanovsky explains in A History of Russia (Oxford, 1963; 3rd ed., 1977), the Russians have pa- tiently endured invasion, isolation, and a backward economy. Looking West, Russia's rulers have repeat- edly sought to catch up with Europe, "whether by means of Peter the Great's reforms or the [Soviet] Five- Year Plans."...
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"Nonproliferation and U.S. Foreign Policy."
The Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C.
20036.438 pp. $22.95
Authors: Joseph A. Yager et al.
After 35 years, the nuclear weapons
club now has six members -the
United States, Soviet Union, Britain,
France, China, and India. (Israel and
South Africa may make it eight.) Dur-
ing the 1980s, this number could dou-
ble.
Too many different factors seem to b...
This winter, Graham Greene's Ways of Escape, the long-awaited sequel to his first memoir, A Sort of Life (1971) will be published in New York. In the new book, the British novelist assembles a pastiche of recollections of his adventures around the world dur- ing the past 50 years-exploits that resulted in such vivid novels as The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter, The Quiet American, and Our Man in Havana. Yet Greene has always brought a special dimension of faith to his novels. Here...
by Jonathan M. Wiener
La. State Univ., 1978
247 pp. $14.95
by Richard Taylor
Cambridge, 1979
214 pp. $19.95
edited by the Brooklyn
Museum
Pantheon, 1979
232 pp. $25
by Lester C. Thurow
Basic, 1980
230 pp. $12.95
by Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
Yale, 1978, cloth; 1980,
Paper
159 pp. $12.50 cloth, $5.95
Paper
by Ronald Steel
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1980
669 pp. $19.95