Katholische gruppierungen in polen: Pax und znak 1945-1976 by Andrzej MicewskiReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Winter, 1978), pp. 424-425Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20040160 .

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424 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

interpretation of Soviet theory and practice is colored by the theoretical

approach of the author.

THE FUTURE OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY: 1978-1985. Edited by Holland Hunter. Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press, 1978, 177 pp. $16.00.

The Soviet economy is hampered by two sets of constraints, one physical and

economic, the other institutional, which give a prospect of very slow growth unless the institutional framework can be reformed. These collected papers dealing with that problem are full of statistical data and sound arguments, although the conclusions, except in the case of Hunter's brief summary, are often hard to dig out.

THE AMERICAN NON-POLICY TOWARDS EASTERN EUROPE 1943-47. By Geir Lundestad. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1978, 652 pp. N. Kr. 89.50.

The fact that the author takes over 600 pages to describe the "non-policy" at least raises a question about the conclusion implied by his title. One might also ask why anyone should write another book on the origins of the cold war, but this one, by the very thoroughness of its coverage country by country and across

the board, was well worth the effort. Ponderous, occasionally off base in its

interpretation, it is nevertheless a balanced book, neither traditionalist nor

revisionist, and very valuable for reference.

FROM STALINISM TO EUROCOMMUNISM. By Ernest Mandel. London:

NLB, 1978, 220 pp. (New York: Schocken Books, distributor, $15.00; Paper, $5.95). TOWARDS AN EAST EUROPEAN MARXISM. By Marc Rakovski. New York: St. Martin's, 1978, 138 pp. $15.95. LE "NOUVEAU COMMUNISME": ?TUDES SUR L'EUROCOMMUNISME ET L'EUROPE DE L'EST. Edited by Harish Kapur and Miklos Molnar. Geneva: Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales, 1978, 111 pp.

Further illustrations of the intellectual ferment stirred by the phenomena of Eurocommunism. Mandel, as expected, makes a sharp critique from the Left,

with particular reference to the "neo-reformist" strategy of the Eurocommun

ists, and affirms that the time is ripe for a real socialist revolution in Europe, East and West. Rakovski, "a Marxist who lives and works in Eastern Europe," writes a frank and revealing essay exposing both the orthodox Marxism of the

regimes and the reformism of the dissidents. Along the way he deals with the class nature of Soviet-type societies, the theory of convergence, and other points of interest. The studies on "the new communism" are worth reading but brief and disappointing in their failure to go very far in analyzing the interaction between Eurocommunism in the West and revisionism in the East.

MARXIST HUMANISM AND PRAXIS. Edited by Gerson S. Sher. Buffalo

(N.Y.): Prometheus, 1978, 183 pp. $14.95. A selection of outstanding articles from the Yugoslav journal Praxis, now

suppressed. This is a good companion piece to Sher's recent book on the Praxis

school of Marxist philosphers (noted in Foreign Affairs, April 1978).

POLITICAL OPPOSITION IN POLAND, 1954-1977. By Peter Raina. London: Poets' and Painters' Press, 1978, 584 pp.

A detailed account of intellectual dissidence from the time of the original "thaw." Raina, who knows Poland at first hand, is in full sympathy with the dissidents and dedicates his book to Kuron and Michnik, two of their leaders and symbols.

KATHOLISCHE GRUPPIERUNGEN IN POLEN: PAX UND ZNAK 1945 1976. By Andrzej Micewski. Munich: Kaiser/Mainz: Matthias-Gr?newald, 1978, 356 pp. DM. 28.50.

Relations between the Communist regime in Poland and the still-powerful

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and popular Catholic Church have been marked by a combination of enmity and uneasy practical compromise. The character and role ?well described in this book ?of the two main Catholic political organizations ?Pax, which served the regime, and Znak, which opposed it but within the law ?represented alternative reactions to that basic correlation of forces. The author is a member of Znak.

THE UNITED STATES IN PRAGUE, 1945-1948. By Walter Ullmann. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978, 216 pp. $13.00.

Based on the documents now available on the American (but not on the

Czechoslovak) side, this critical monograph covers U.S.-Czechoslovak relations from the liberation to the February coup. The author faults both Washington and Ambassador Steinhardt for inadequate understanding of the situation and lack of a long-range policy.

FROM DUBCEK TO CHARTER 77. By Vladimir V. Kusin. New York: St.

Martin's, 1978, 353 pp. $18.95. A worthy sequel to Kusin's books on the reform movement of the 1960s in

Czechoslovakia. He covers a decade of repression in all its grimness and also the

beginnings of the protest movement which produced "the way of the Charter."

SOCIALIST ALBANIA SINCE 1944. By Peter R. Prifti. Cambridge: MIT

Press, 1978,311 pp. $19.95. The best general survey available on postwar Albania. Prifti tells us a great

deal about the country and the system and gives at least a partial answer to why this small and impoverished country has broken successively with the "revision ist" regimes of Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, and now China, to become the

only true Marxist-Leninist state in all the world.

The Middle East and North Africa

John C. Campbell THE JEWISH PARADOX. By Nahum Goldmann. New York: Grosset &

Dunlap, 1978, 218 pp. $12.95. The prominent leader of world Zionism, who has scant respect for the

policies of Israel, recalls episodes of his long career and conversations with world figures. He calls, as before, for a genuine peace with the Arabs.

PALESTINE: RETREAT FROM THE MANDATE. By Michael J. Cohen. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1978, 237 pp. $23.00.

The dilemmas and contradictions of British policy from the Peel Report and the 1939 White Paper to the advent of the Labour government at the end of

World War II. Unpublished British and Zionist documents back up the author's theme of increasing British concern with the pan-Arab dimension of the

problem, and of the inevitable turn of the Zionists from Weizmann's to Ben Gurion's strategy.

JUDEN UND ARABER IN EINEM LAND. By Franz Ansprenger. Munich: Kaiser/Mainz-.Grunewald, 1978, 335 pp. DM. 28.50.

With exemplary thoroughness a German scholar traces Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine from 1917 to the present. His preferred solution is a return to the idea of a common state, an Israel in which Jews and Arabs will have parity.

PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST. By David Astor and Valerie Yorke. London: Transworld (for the World Security Trust), 1978, 174 pp. ? 1.95 (Paper).

An elaborate set of proposals for peace settlements, in which the main key to

security would be the involvement of the U.S. and U.S.S.R. through guarantees,

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