Volume 25, Number 8 · May 18, 1978
Marriage of Inconvenience
By E.H. Carr
The United Front: The TUC and the Russians 1923-1928
by Daniel F. Calhoun
Cambridge University Press, 450 pp., $27.50
Let me begin by declaring my interest. When the author of this book was pursuing his researches in England two or three years ago, he discovered that I was probably the only person in the British academic world who had much knowledge of, or interest in, his rather esoteric theme. At that time I was deeply immersed in Soviet relations with the Western world, including Great Britain, in the later 1920s. He was making himself a specialist in an episode which was not only colorful in itself, but shed a beam of light over a wide surrounding area.
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