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A Guide to Communist Jargon, by R. N. Carew Hunt (Macmillan, $3.50). In 1950 Carew Hunt brought out a volume called The Theory and Practice of Communism, a brilliant in capsulation of its difficult subject which was quickly, and deservedly, elevated to the status of a minor classic. A Guide to Communist Jargon—like Carew Hunt’s second book, Marxism, Past and Present—is a less ambitious work, but no less useful. Although the Guide is purportedly a “glossary” of fifty specimens of Soviet gobbledygook, Hunt could no more write a mere “glossary” than he could fly. He has fashioned, instead, a series of thoughtful and instructive essays on those aspects of Communist strategy which the various words and phrases suggest.

C.L.

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A Guide to Communist Jargon, by R. N. Carew Hunt (Macmillan, $3.50). In 1950 Carew Hunt brought out a volume called The Theory and Practice of Communism, a brilliant in capsulation of its difficult subject which was quickly, and deservedly, elevated to the status of a minor classic. A Guide to Communist Jargon—like Carew Hunt’s second book, Marxism, Past and Present—is a less ambitious work, but no less useful. Although the Guide is purportedly a “glossary” of fifty specimens of Soviet gobbledygook, Hunt could no more write a mere “glossary” than he could fly. He has fashioned, instead, a series of thoughtful and instructive essays on those aspects of Communist strategy which the various words and phrases suggest.

C.L.