Russia 1917: The Unpublished Revolution by Jonathan SandersReview by: Peter GroseForeign Affairs, Vol. 69, No. 3 (Summer, 1990), p. 185Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20044459 .

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in driving tractors or putting up with men. Households consisting entirely of two or three generations of women are widespread and seemingly

perfectly content. Francine Gray marvels at the complexities and contra

dictions in the Soviet female character and she comes up with many

surprises. On the whole she finds Soviet women not at all downtrodden, but

formidable, and in many ways admirable. Lucy Despard

MEMOIRS. By Andrei Gromyko. New York: Doubleday, 1990, 414 pp. $24.95.

From the evidence of these memoirs the effect of glasnost on Andrei

Gromyko was minimal. In his descriptions of events and personalities encountered in his long career in diplomacy he hews closely to the official

Soviet propaganda line of the time, with manifold distortions of reality. The only exception is a chapter, written for this American edition, in which

he deplores Stalin's crimes and seeks an explanation for them. In all,

Gromyko served his government well as apologist and negotiator. Behind

the stony-faced mask of "Mr. Nyet" there was, it seems, a stony-faced man

of limited vision.

RUSSIA 1917: THE UNPUBLISHED REVOLUTION. By Jonathan Sanders. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, 260 pp. $39.95.

Gradually the spirit of glasnost has penetrated the musty, sealed archives

of Bolshevism to reveal this elegant collection of contemporary photo

graphs, most never seen in the West, from the revolutionary year of 1917.

Particularly haunting are the faces of people?both well known and

nameless?trying to go about daily life as history crashes down upon them.

Sanders places the remarkable images in context with an extended intro

ductory essay. A coffee-table book with substance and impact. Peter Grose

YALTA YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW. By Jean Laloy. New York: Harper & Row, 1990, 153 pp. $17.95.

Laloy is a French diplomat with long experience in Soviet affairs. Here he puts the Yalta Conference in the context of the whole course of

Anglo-American-Soviet relations in World War II and its aftermath. He

tells his story briefly but with all essential elements, pointing out the

weaknesses and miscalculations of Churchill and Roosevelt but also dispos ing of the myth, widely believed in France thanks to de Gaulle, that Yalta

was a cynical conspiracy to partition Europe. For tomorrow, the recom

mendation is not to go on arguing about Yalta endlessly but to understand it and learn its lessons.

THE SOVIET CONCEPT OF 'LIMITED SOVEREIGNTY' FROM LENIN TO GORBACHEV: THE BREZHNEV DOCTRINE. By Robert

A.Jones. New York: St. Martin's, 1990, 337 pp. $45.00. An excellent study, both historical and contemporary, of Soviet theory

and practice in relations among communist parties and states: sovereignty, proletarian internationalism, socialist international relations and interven tion. The Brezhnev Doctrine was not invented in 1968; its essence had long been Soviet policy. Is it still in force? Does it apply to rebellious constituent Soviet republics? The author concludes that it is too early to write its

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