Table of Contents

Volume 24, Number 5 · March 31, 1977

Leonard Schapiro, Two Years That Shook the World

The Bolsheviks Come to Power: The Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd by Alexander Rabinowitch

The Russian Revolution: A Study in Mass Mobilization by John L.H. Keep

Class Struggles in the USSR: First Period 1917-1923 by Charles Bettelheim, translated by Brian Pearce

The File on the Tsar by Anthony Summers, by Tom Mangold

The Secret Police in Lenin's Russia by Lennard D. Gerson

Robert Towers, Southern Discomfort

Lancelot by Walker Percy

Jean Lacouture, The Bloodiest Revolution

Cambodge, année zéro by François Ponchaud

Helen Muchnic, Was Gogol Gay?

The Sexual Labyrinth of Nikolai Gogol by Simon Karlinsky

Stuart Hampshire, The Future of Knowledge

John Ashbery, Two Poems by John Ashbery (poem)

Clive James, Dissatisfactions of Power

The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Volume I: Minister of Housing, 1964-1966 by Richard Crossman

The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Volume II: Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, 1966-1968 (to be published in August, 1977, by Holt, Rinehart & Winston) by Richard Crossman

Leon Wieseltier, The Revolt of Gershom Scholem

On Jews and Judaism in Crisis: Selected Essays by Gershom Scholem, edited by Werner J. Dannhauser

Alexander Cockburn, James Ridgeway, Selling the Sun

Space Colonies by T.A. Heppenheimer

The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard O'Neill

Solar Energy and America's Future and Development Administration (ERDA) Commerce 5285 Port Royal Rd. Springfield, Virginia 22161 prepared by the Stanford Research Institute for the Energy Research

Barbara Rose, O'Keeffe's Trail

Georgia O'Keeffe by Georgia O'Keeffe

Claire Tomalin, Frontstage Wife

The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume II: 1912-1922 edited by Nigel Nicolson, edited by Joanne Trautmann

Peter B. Reddaway, The KGB in Georgia


Letters

J.M.B. Crawford, J.M. Cameron, The Spiritual Life
Jon Beckwith, Larry Miller, et al. Politics & IQ
Edward O. Wilson, P.B. Medawar, Politics & IQ
Allen Graubard, Politics & IQ
John Russell, Garry Wills, Reading the Goncourts
Mary H. Aiken, Not So Definitive
David McReynolds, Forward with Muste
Ned O'Gorman, Children's Storefront
Martin Oppenheimer, Scoundrelzeit



Contributors

John Ashbery is the author of twenty books of poetry, including Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He has also published art criticism, plays, and a novel. Ashbery is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.

Alexander Cockburn edits the newsletter CounterPunch and writes columns for the Los Angeles Times and The Nation.

Stuart Hampshire, formerly Warden of Wardham College, Oxford, is the author of Spinoza and Justice Is Conflict.(October 2002)

Clive James is the author of many books of criticism, autobiography, fiction, and poetry. His latest and longest book, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts, will be published in the spring. (January 2007)


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