Volume 27, Number 15 · October 9, 1980
A Journey Into the Soviet Future
By Leonard Schapiro
Stalin's Successors: Leadership, Stability, and Change in the Soviet Union
by Seweryn Bialer
Cambridge University Press, 312 pp., $19.95
What will the Soviet Union be like in the Eighties? What will it do? Will it wish to cooperate with the Western world? Will it remain aggressively expansive? And, if so, will it have the economic and political strength to survive? Regrettably, these questions are among the most important ones with which the Western world will be faced in the next few years. I say 'regrettably,' because they are a measure of the weakness and lack of will that beset the West. These qualities are illustrated by the fact that in place of a policy in the face of advancing communist influence and power, the West has been able to produce nothing but squeaks of surprised and indignant reaction to every new Soviet move.
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