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The Soviet Empire

TIBOR SZAMUELY Internationalism or Russification? Ivan Dzyuba edited by M. Davies (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 42s) - The Chornovil Papers compiled by Vyacheslav Chornovil......

Shorter Notice

The Jews and the Age of Enlightenment in France Arthur Herzberg (Columbia University Press 112s 6d). Herzberg's great weight of learning doesn't hamper his vigorous, highly......

Pearls & Potatoes

PETER FLEMING Some thirty-five summers—all, to the best of my recollection, preceded or followed by an identi- cal number of springs, autumns and winters: get the hall-porter at......