RUSSIA AND THE WEST UNDER LENIN
AND STALIN (41 I pp.)George F. KennanAtlantic-Little, Brown ($5.75).
On one of the early shaky days of the Bolshevik regime, Lenin dashed off a one-sentence scrawl to a meeting of the Central Committee: "I request that my vote be added in favor of the acceptance of potatoes and arms from the bandits of Anglo-French imperialism." Short months before, Woodrow Wilson had rhetorically hailed the promise of the Russian revolution: "Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the...
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