Solidarity: The Analysis of a Social Movement: Poland 1980-1981 by Alain TouraineReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 62, No. 1 (Fall, 1983), p. 224Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20041792 .

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224 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

SOLIDARITY: THE ANALYSIS OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT: POLAND 1980-1981. By Alain Touraine and others. New York: Cambridge University

Press, 1983, 203 pp. $19.95. The great achievement of Solidarity was that it forced acceptance, at least for

a time, of what the Soviet Union and the Polish Communist regime found

unacceptable. A number of journalists and other observers have already recre ated the stirring events of 1980-81. In this book, a scientific research effort carried out by a French sociologist and his colleagues, Poles who took a leading part in the movement are allowed to speak for themselves. The reader, accord

ingly, can get a sense of the strength and depth of the tidal wave of national and

religious feeling of which Solidarity was the institutional expression and the

symbol.

THE FIRST YUGOSLAVIA: SEARCH FOR A VIABLE POLITICAL SYS TEM. By Alex N. Dragnich. Stanford: Hoover Press, 1983, 182 pp. $24.95.

Professor Dragnich, who has written on the history of Serbia before World War I and on Communist Yugoslavia since World War II, is admirably qualified

to write this story of interwar Yugoslavia. It is that of an experiment in democracy which failed, followed by an experiment in dictatorship and "guided democracy" which also failed, thanks to the "national" or Serb-Croat question, which threw into doubt the very existence of a Yugoslav state and condemned it to paralyzing internal conflict. The book concentrates on politics?the rise and fall of cabinets and the intrigues of politicians?to the virtual exclusion of economics and foreign policy.

The Middle East

John C. Campbell THE REDEMPTION OF THE UNWANTED: FROM THE LIBERATION OF THE DEATH CAMPS TO THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL. By Abram Sachar. New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1983, 320 pp. $19.95.

The former president of Brandeis University tells of the Holocaust, the DP

camps, the exodus to Palestine, and the struggles that led to the partition of

Palestine and the birth of Israel. With his own views, sympathies and sense of

involvement always clear, he has written no desiccated history but a lively narrative hitting the high spots and recounting individual episodes of tragedy, courage, human interest. In dealing with U.S. policy, he makes use of the papers of David Niles, President Truman's assistant, confirming that Niles had a major influence on Truman in determining the policies which were eventually adopted.

THE POLITICS OF INDECISION: ORIGINS AND IMPLICATIONS OF AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT WITH THE PALESTINE PROBLEM. By Dan

Tschirgi. New York: Praeger, 1983, 341 pp. $29.95. America's "involvement" with the Palestine problem in the 1940s was not

simply the result of domestic politics or Zionist propaganda, but rather a

complexity of contending influences, and the personal styles and proclivities of two presidents (Roosevelt and Truman), with policy often at the mercy of events

and global considerations always more important than the pros and cons of the

Palestine imbroglio. Dan Tschirgi describes this "politics of indecision" fully and

objectively, using the now available material in the U.S. National Archives and the recent works of Evan Wilson and others. Not definitive history?nothing

will ever be definitive on this subject?but a first-rate, carefully documented and

balanced study.

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