Volume 46, Number 14 · September 23, 1999
Please Fence Me In
By Alan Ryan
Property and Freedom
by Richard Pipes
Knopf, 328 pp., $30.00
The Stakeholder Society
by Bruce Ackerman, by Anne Alstott
Yale University Press, 296 pp., $26.00
Richard Pipes is a distinguished historian of Russia whose work became prominent during the cold war. His accounts of Russian history, before and after the revolutions of 1917, are framed by a familiar question: Why did Russia not develop into a pluralist liberal democracy of a European, or North Atlantic, variety, but instead became the Soviet tyranny that outdid in atrocity and irrationality anything that its predecessor regimes had done? For all that, Pipes seems to take little comfort from the collapse of the Soviet regime. Indeed, he gives the impression that the removal of the external threat to the United States has simply allowed him to concentrate on the threats to American liberty from its own welfare institutions.
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