Volume 23, Number 5 · April 1, 1976
In a Frozen Country
By Gennady Shmakov, John Malmstad
The Russians
by Hedrick Smith
Quadrangle, 527 pp., $12.50
Russia: The People and the Power
by Robert G. Kaiser
Atheneum, 499 pp., $12.95
A foreign visitor to Russia usually manages to see only the strange and fascinating façade of the Soviet Union. He is busy rushing from the Kremlin to the Bolshoi Theater, from restaurants specializing in la cuisine russe (here, at least, he will sit for hours, the unwilling prisoner of the Russian promise, 'right away') to 'Beryozka' shops, in which only foreign currency is accepted.
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