Mr. W. H. Chamberlain has been the Russian Corres- pondent
for various American newspapers for the last seven years. He has therefore had considerable opportunity to observe, consider, and form a judgment of the experiment which is being made in the U.S.S.R. Soviet Russia (Duck- worth, 25s.) gives the fullest objective account of the present situation in Russia which has yet been published. Beginning with a short survey of the historical background, Mr. Chamber- lain goes on to describe the external appearance of many Russian cities and of the countryside, the organization of the Communist Party, certain outstanding personalities, liberty in Soviet Russia, ke., concluding with a chapter on what he considers are the most enduring results of the Revolution. To the four definite results to which he refers, we feel he should have added a fifth—the emancipation of women and the real equality of the sexes. Mr. Chamberlain has written a very fair, unemotional, and instructive book.
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