Volume 8, Number 5 · March 23, 1967
People Without a Country
By Walter Laqueur
The Jews of Silence
by Elie Wiesel
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 143 pp., $4.95
It is still widely believed that everything that happens in the Soviet Union is planned according to some overall theoretical blueprint. Reality is more complex; in their internal policies Soviet leaders have been so preoccupied with economic problems that they have hardly been able in recent decades to pause for reflection and re-examination of anything except the most urgent issues. This much, at any rate, they seem to have in common with political leaders in democratic countries.
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