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Gustave Alef; Mutscovy and the Council of Florence Robert W. Campbell: Marx,Kantorovich, and Notozhilov MielvilleJ. Ruggles: AmericanBooks in Soviet Publishing Ritvo: Twenty-FirstParty Congress(Part Two) sHerbert Roy D. Laird: Soviet Goals and Problems of Agriculure Gleb Strtve; On Chekhov's Craftsmanship D. A. Tomasic: The RumanianCommunistLeadership
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BertramD. Wolfe: Leon Trotskyas Histrian VladimirMarkov: UnnoticedAspect of Pasternak's Tranalation. Henry L. Roberts: Easten Europe and the Hitorian
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Backus: Muscovite History in Recn Soviet Writing ~~~Oswald

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AMERICAN QUARTERLY OF SOVIET AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Contents: October 1961
DISCUSSION

The Nature of the Soviet System .351

ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI

USSR, Incorporated .369

ALFRED G. MEYER

The Question of Totalitarianism .377

ROBERT C. TUCKER

Reply .383
ZB1GNIEW BRZEZINSKI

ARTICLES

Muscovy and the Council of Florence .389\

GUSTAVE ALEF

Marx, Kanitorovich, and Novozhilov: Stoimost' versus Reality

ROBERT W. CAMPBELL

402

American Books in Soviet Publishing

MIELVILLE J. RUGGLES

.419' and After (Part Two)

.

Twenty-First Party Congress-Before

HERBERT RITVO

436 454

Soviet Goals for 1965 and the Problems of Agriculture

ROY D. LAIRD

On Chekhov's Craftsmanship:
GLEB STRUVE

The Anatomy of a Story

465 477

The Rumanian Communist Leadership.

D. A. TOMASIC

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NOTES

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COMMENT

Leon Trotsky as Historian .495

BERTRAM D. WOLFE

An Unnoticed Aspect of Pasternak's Translations .503

VLADIMIR MARKOV

Eastern ELirope and the Historian

HENRY L. ROBERTS

.509

REVIEW

ARTICLE

Muscovite History in Recent Soviet Publications

OSWALD P. BACKUS III

.517

REVIEWS

Oscar Halecki, From Florence to Brest (1439-1596)

IHOR SEVCENKO

523

Gunther Erich Rothenberg, The Austrian Military Border in Croatia, 1522-1747 .527
PETER F. SUGAR

Robert A. Kann, A Study in Austrian Intellectutal History: FronmLate Balroqve to Romanticism .528
DONALD E. EMERSON

Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Historii, Historia Polski, Tom II: 1764-1864, Part IV .530
PIOTR S. WANDYCZ

Denis Sinor, History of Hungary .530

STEPHEN BORSODY

Hryhory Kostiuk, Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine: A Stutdy of the Decade of Mass Terror (1929-1939) .539
JOHN A. ARMSTRONG

Gregory Grossman, Soviet Statistics of Physical Output of Indcistrial Commnodities: Their Compilation anad Quality; Murray Feshbach, The Soviet Statistical System: Labor Force Recordkeepinrg and Reporting .533
ROBERT W. CAMPBELL

George Kish, Economic Atlas of the Soviet Union .536

CHAUNCY D. HARRIS

S. P. Suslov, Physical Geography of Asiatic Russia .537

W. A. DOUGLAS JACKSON

Rufus W. Mathewson, Jr., The Positive Hero in Russian Literature .538

DEMING BROWN

Vladimir Dudintsev, A New Year's Tale .539

VICTOR ERLICH

VlIykolaKh7vylovy, Stories from the Ukraine .541

IVAN L. RUDNYTSKY

California Slavic Studies, Volume I .544

RALPH E. MATLAW

Edmund Schneeweis, Die Deutschen Lehnwdrter im Serbokroatischen in kulturgeschichtlicher Sicht .545

MICHAEL SAMILOV

Melville Ruggles and Vaclav Mostecky, Russian and East European Publications in the Libraries of the United States.
W. S. SWORAKOWSKI

546

American Association of Law Libraries, Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, Vol. I, 1960 .549
JOHN N. HAZARD

The Kilgour Collection of Russian Literature 1750-1920: With Notes on Early Books and Manuscripts of the 16th and 17th Centuries .549
GEORGE IVASK

William K. Medlin, Clarence B. Lindquist, and Marshall L. Schmitt, Soviet Edutcation Programs; A dministration of T"eaching in Social Sciences in the U.S.S.R.
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