SOVIET COMMUNISM: A NEW CIVILISATION?
Sidney and Beatrice Webb
Scribner (Two vols.; $7.50).
No more than Berlin or Rome does Moscow set the World's style for what the well-dressed Government will wear. Yet Russia has caused more conflicting political-fashion reports than any other country in the world. Patterns brought back from the Red Style Centre by contemptuous or delighted buyers have differed hugely; most seemed to have been cut on the bias. Superimposed or pieced together, however ingeniously, they made little better than a crazy quilt. But last week appeared a...