Volume 1, Number 3 · September 26, 1963

Inside the Whale

By Leonard Schapiro
The Future of Russia
by Harry Braverman

Macmillan, 192 pp., $5.00

The New Face of Soviet Totalitarianism
by Adam B. Ulam

Harvard, 233 pp., $4.95

How Russia Is Ruled
by Merle Fainsod

Harvard University Press, 684 pp., $8.95

Prediction in politics is a dangerous pastime. One has to be very bold to engage in it, or perhaps the boldness comes from a failure to realize all the pitfalls. Mr. Braverman is certainly more courageous than most of us. He tells us what Russia is going to be like, and no nonsense about it. What puzzles me is whom he is trying to convince.



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