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...Imperialism" is a term that belongs in the Classical vocabulary of Communist abuse. If the Russians use it with exceptional skill, it is only because they have an appreciation of its meaning. For within the USSR lies an empire as diverse and far-flung as anything the pre-Marxian world could assemble. The Formation of the Soviet Union, by Richard Pipes of the Russian Research Center, is a study of this empire in the making. Along with the gross anatomy of acquisition, Pipes combines a more rewarding discussion of the physiology of the empire, tracing the course of the troublesome...
...USSR will show definite indications of good faith on these issues, the new proposal holds the possibility for actual disarmament gains. But the United States must not be so anxious to find merit in the Soviet plan that it becomes tangled in a web of fruitless argument and delay. Should this happen the hopeful steps made with the "atoms for peace" program will be lost in the storms of debate...
...Rise of Mao," by Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, assistant professor of History; "Public Opinion in Soviet Russia," by Alex Inkeles, Senior Research Fellow in the Research Center and lecturer on Sociology; and two boks by Barrington Moore, Jr., "Soviet Politics, the Dilemma of Power," and "Terror and Progress, USSR." Moore is a lecturer on Sociology and a Senior Research Fellow in the Research Center...
Members of a specially appointed committee began yesterday morning to read through all Girls Latin School textbooks containing any references to the USSR, after a student there reported to a member of the school board that a book assigned to her seemed pro-Russian...
Russia's leaders have flunked their doublethink lessons, according to Barrington Moore, Jr., Senior Research Fellow, of the Russian Research Center. In his new book, "Terror and Progress, USSR," Moore says that the Kremlin is trying to reconcile "the glow of official propaganda" with "daily experience for Soviet citizens" by resorting to "fairly typical bureaucratic cynicism...