Volume 7, Number 4 · September 22, 1966
Inside the Whale
By Alec Nove
The Bolsheviks
by Adam B. Ulam
Macmillan, 598 pp., $9.95
Stalin's Russia
by Francis B. Randall
Free Press, 328 pp., $6.95
The Soviet Political System
by A.G. Meyer
Random House, 494 pp., $5.95
Next year the Russian revolution will be fifty years old. It is an important task for historians to take another careful look at the events of 1917, their causes and their consequences. How much have events been determined by circumstances, how much by the strong and powerful personalities of Lenin and Stalin? To what extent was Stalinism a logical or a necessary consequence of Leninism? And to what extent do the present Soviet leadership and institutions reflect the principles and aims of the revolution? In their different ways, the works under review seek to cast light on problems of this kind.
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