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Russia Under Khrushchev: An Anthology from Problems of Communism, edited by Abraham Brum-berg (Praeger, cloth $8.75, paper $2.50). In ten years of publication, the USIA journal Problems of Communism has produced some worthwhile articles, and some suitable only for wrapping fish. It is not unnatural that the editors of that journal should consider a collection of the better articles to be of some interest, especially to book-buyers who take a Tennessee Williams attitude toward magazine readers. Whatever the reason for the collection, its appearance at this time gives evidence that the recent trend of editorial policy at the Murrow shop is less realistic than it was ten or so years ago. The newer pieces are generally pointed to the idea that Uncle Nikita is coming around to something approaching social democracy—what with old mean Mao acting up and all those educated managers in the USSR getting such an interest in the status quo.

w. D. JACOBS

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Russia Under Khrushchev: An Anthology from Problems of Communism, edited by Abraham Brum-berg (Praeger, cloth $8.75, paper $2.50). In ten years of publication, the USIA journal Problems of Communism has produced some worthwhile articles, and some suitable only for wrapping fish. It is not unnatural that the editors of that journal should consider a collection of the better articles to be of some interest, especially to book-buyers who take a Tennessee Williams attitude toward magazine readers. Whatever the reason for the collection, its appearance at this time gives evidence that the recent trend of editorial policy at the Murrow shop is less realistic than it was ten or so years ago. The newer pieces are generally pointed to the idea that Uncle Nikita is coming around to something approaching social democracy—what with old mean Mao acting up and all those educated managers in the USSR getting such an interest in the status quo.

w. D. JACOBS