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Volume 12, Number 12 · June 19, 1969

Alexander Gerschenkron, On Dictatorship

The Great Terror: Stalin's Purge of the Thirties by Robert Conquest

I.F. Stone, An Appeal to Averell Harriman

Ernst Gombrich, Art Transplant

The Great Age of Fresco: Giotto to Pontormo with an Introduction by Millard Meiss

Neal Ascherson, The Rise and Fall of the Czech Rebellion

The Seventh Night by Ladislav Mnacko

The Czech Black Book Sciences compiled by the Historical Section of the Czechoslovak Academy of, edited by Robert Littell

The Voices by Joseph Wechsberg

Prague's Two Hundred Days by Harry Schwartz

Prague Spring: A Report on Czechoslovakia 1968 by Z.A.B. Zeman

Plan and Market Under Socialism by Ota Sik

Denis Donoghue, Worldling

Secondary Worlds by W.H. Auden

Collected Longer Poems by W.H. Auden

Letters From Iceland by W.H. Auden, by Louis MacNeice

Völuspá: The Song of the Sybil translated by Paul B. Taylor, translated by W.H. Auden

Quest for the Necessary: W. H. Auden and the Dilemma of Divided Consciousness by Herbert Greenberg

Auden's Poetry by Justin Replogle

John H. Schaar, Sheldon S. Wolin, Berkeley: The Battle of People's Park

Virgil Thomson, What Is Quality in Music?

Edgar Z. Friedenberg, Patriotic Gore

Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship by Gore Vidal

J.H. Plumb, Farmers in Arms

Captain Swing by Rudé George, by E.J. Hobsbawm

William Cobbett, His Thought and His Times by John W. Osborne

The English Jacobins by Carl B. Cone

Letters

Peter Babcox, Noam Chomsky, et al. The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy
Richard Cobb, Not a Marxist
Nathan P. Glazer, The Technocratic Mind
Raziel Abelson, The Technocratic Mind
Conor Cruise O'Brien, Hannah Arendt, The Technocratic Mind

Contributors

Neal Ascherson is the author of The Struggles for Poland, The Black Sea, and Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland. He is the editor of the journal Public Archaeology at University College London. (November 2007)

Denis Donoghue is University Professor at NYU, where he holds the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters. He is the author of The Practice of Reading, Words Alone: The Poet T.S. Eliot, and, most recently, The American Classics. (October 2006)

Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich OM was born in Vienna in 1909 and died in London on November 3, 2001, aged 92. He studied at the Theresianum and then at the Second Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna under Julius von Schlosser (1928-33). He then worked as a Research Assistant and collaborator with the museum curator and Freudian analyst Ernst Kris. He joined the Warburg Institute in London as a Research Assistant in 1936. During World War 2 he was employed by the BBC as a Radio Monitor. After the war he rejoined the Warburg Institute eventually becoming its Director in 1959. His major publications include The Story of Art (1950), Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (1960), Aby Warburg: An Intellectual Biography (1970), The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art. (Also see: www.gombrich.co.uk.)

I.F. Stone was an American journalist, publisher of I.F. Stone's Weekly, and a regular contributor to the Review. For more about him please visit www.ifstone.org.