Patriot or Traitor: The Case of General MihailovichReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Spring, 1979), pp. 957-959Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20040247 .

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DIVIDED LOYALTIES: BRITISH REGIONAL ASSERTION AND EU ROPEAN INTEGRATION. Edited by Martin Kolinsky. Manchester (U.K.): Manchester University Press, 1978, 216 pp. (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Hu manities Press, distributor, $19.25).

The contributors to this symposium, all British political scientists, assess the constitutional implications of Britain's membership in the European Com

munity and the possible devolution of power to national interests in Scotland and elsewhere. They conclude that both "Britain's nationhood" and the "continuance of her democratic regime" are threatened, a conclusion that seems unduly pessimistic.

TRANSITION IN SPAIN. By Victor Alba. New Brunswick (N.J.): Trans

action, 1978, 333 pp. $14.95. Since the time of its settlement, so runs the argument of this book, Spain

has been living "against the grain of history"?politically immature, socially unstable, and out of phase with developments in the rest of Europe. Today, having attained political democracy, Spain is catching up at last. The author, a veteran of the Civil War and of Franco's prisons, believes that Spain's besetting problems are well on the way to solution.

THE METAMORPHOSIS OF GREECE SINCE WORLD WAR II. By William H. McNeill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978, 264 pp.

$12.95. The attempt to transform Greek public life over the past 30 years has been

an extraordinary success, without parallel in Greek history, argues McNeill, largely because local traditions and values have meshed smoothly with the

demands and pressures of modernization. His study, infinitely rich and

suggestive, will be read by all who want to understand contemporary Greece and her possible future.

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

John C. Campbell TO BUILD A CASTLE: MY LIFE AS A DISSENTER. By Vladimir Bukovsky. New York: Viking, 1979, 438 pp. $17.50.

Bukovsky's convictions and his indomitable spirit come through strongly in this compelling narrative of his ordeal in the prisons, labor camps and

psychiatric hospitals of the U.S.S.R.

ALARM AND HOPE. By Andrei D. Sakharov. New York: Knopf, 1978, 200

pp. $8.95 (Paper, $2.95). Statements made by Sakharov over the past few years, including his Nobel

Prize lecture and the exchange of letters with President Carter.

SOVIET PERCEPTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. By Morton Schwartz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978, 224 pp. $12.50.

The perceptions are those of G. A. Arbatov and his colleagues of the Institute of the U.S.A. in Moscow, to whom the author, an American expert on Soviet foreign policy, gives some credit for the greater comprehension of

America and the greater moderation evident in Soviet policy in the past ten

years.

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SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD WESTERN EUROPE. Edited by George Ginsburgs and Alvin Z. Rubinstein. New York, Praeger, 1978, 295 pp.

Solid contributions by assorted experts to a subject which is central to Western security but has had too little informed and detailed attention. The

question of "finlandization" gets a thorough airing.

MATERIALIZATSIIA RAZRIADKI: EKONOMICHESKIE ASPEKTY. Edited by V. N. Shenaev and Yu. V. Andreev. Moscow: Mysl, 1978, 346 pp. Rubles 1.30.

A series of informative studies by Soviet economists covering recent eco

nomic relations with West European countries, the U.S., and Japan.

SOVIET NATIONALITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES. Edited by Jer emy R. Azrael. New York: Praeger, 1978, 393 pp.

Essays which range widely over the general topic of the "nationality question" in czarist and communist Russia. Some are rather narrow research

projects; others, broader discussions of policy. Azrael's concluding chapter on

emerging problems in this area of policy finds them serious but not fatal for the Soviet regime.

SOVIET SOCIETY AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY. Edited by Karl W. Ryavec. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1978, 256 pp. $15.00.

Individual scholars address the question of how the role of the Party has been adapted to the process of economic and social change. The volume's value lies less in an overall argument, real or contrived, than in the competent way each author ploughs his own terrain.

INNOVATION IN COMMUNIST SYSTEMS. Edited by Andrew Gyorgy and James A. Kuhlman. Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press, 1978, 224 pp. $17.50.

Complementing the Ryavec volume (above), these more general and more

readable essays take us into the realm of comparative communist systems and

the diffusion of innovation across national boundaries. Several good contri

butions deal with the impact of Titoism and of Eurocommunism on the states

of the Soviet bloc.

CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS IN COMMUNIST SYSTEMS. Edited

by Dale R. Herspring and Ivan Volgyes. Boulder (Colo.): Westview Press,

1978,273 pp. $21.00. Without providing clear answers either as to theory or to practice, this book

takes us further toward an understanding of the subject than earlier ones, not

least because of the comparative look at the Soviet Union, some of its Warsaw

Pact allies, Yugoslavia, and China. Among the contributors are the leading American and Canadian scholars in the field.

NACHTFROST. By Zden?k Mlyn?r. Cologne: Europaische, 1978, 366 pp. DM. 34.

New light on the men and forces that produced the Prague Spring of 1968

and on those that destroyed it. Mlyn?r, holding a high party position, was

one of the architects of "socialism with a human face." He left Czechoslovakia

only in 1977.

ROMANIAN FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1965. By Aurel Braun. New York:

Praeger, 1978, 217 pp. Not a chronological account or full-scale review of Romania's foreign

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relations but a well-documented and soundly reasoned analysis of the "defen ses" by which Ceausescu has assured his country's autonomy of policy despite Soviet pressures.

SOCIAL CHANGE IN ROMANIA, 1860-1940: A DEBATE ON DEVEL OPMENT IN A EUROPEAN NATION. Edited by Kenneth Jowitt. Berke

ley: Institute of International Studies, University of California; 1978, 207 pp. A book which illustrates what great strides American scholarship on Eastern

Europe has made in the past decade. The discussions of Romania's develop ment invite interesting comparisons with Third World countries today.

PATRIOT OR TRAITOR: THE CASE OF GENERAL MIHAILOVICH. Introductory essay by David Martin. Stanford: Hoover Institution, 1978, 499

pp. $19.00. Statements of U.S. airmen who testified for Mihailovich in 1946 (before a

private American group in New York, not in Belgrade before Tito's court which condemned him) on the question of collaboration with the Nazis,

published for the first time with a long introduction by David Martin. The theme is the same as that of Martin's earlier book, Ally Betrayed. He concludes that more research needs to be done before the story of the Chetnik leader can

be told in an evenhanded manner but makes no reference to the recent detailed studies by Tomasevich and Milazzo (noted in Foreign Affairs, July 1975).

The Middle East and North Africa John C. Campbell NASSER AND HIS GENERATION. By P. J. Vatikiotis. New York: St. Martin's, 1978, 375 pp. $22.50.

Not intended as a standard biography or history of Nasser's reign, this effort by a cultural historian and student of politics to interpret him as a

personality and a product of a generational change in Egypt succeeds bril

liantly, giving us the best portrait of the Egyptian leader yet published. Nasser comes through as a populist despot of extraordinary ability and accomplish

ment, in tune with his time; but "Nasserism" is strangely hollow both as an

ideology and as a lasting achievement.

EGYPT'S UNCERTAIN REVOLUTION UNDER NASSER AND SADAT. By Raymond William Baker. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978, 320 pp. $16.00.

A perceptive and critical picture of Nasser's Egypt not very different from that drawn by Vatikiotis (though more pedestrian in presentation), with the addition of an assessment of Sadat's partial dismantling of Nasser's policies and institutions.

ELUSIVE VICTORY: THE ARAB-ISRAELI WARS, 1947-1974. By Trevor N. Dupuy. New York: Harper, 1978, 669 pp. $25.00.

Compressing five wars into one volume, even such a hefty one as this, is a

daunting task, which Colonel Dupuy attacks boldly and with considerable success. It is not a documented history, but he has read widely, studied the conflict from both sides, and provided a reliable account for the general reader.

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