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Six Soviet Books on the American Political System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Karl W. Ryavec
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Slavic Review , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1971 , pp. 366 - 377
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1971

References

1. S. A. Mikoyan is the son of the former president of the Soviet Union, Anastas Mikoyan, and is now chief editor of the journal Latinskaia Amerika.

2. A figure surpassed by a similar book of his, Nekoronovannye koroli Ameriki (Moscow, 1968), which was printed in one hundred thousand copies.

3. It no doubt grew out of his previous work on the same topic—for example, “O predmete i metode burzhuaznoi politicheskoi nauki,” Sovetskoe gosudarstvo i pravo, 1966, no. 9, pp. 33-41. Kalensky was then a kandidat of juridical sciences employed by the Institute of State and Law of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A review of this book by Solomon, Peter H. Jr., is in the American Political Science Reviezv, 64, no. 1 (March 1970) : 188–89.Google Scholar

4. Although this type of agricultural-industrial combination in the United States has been denounced in two articles in S.Sh.A. (June 1970), an Izvestiia article of August 6, 1970, urges its adoption in the USSR.

5. For a discussion of the effects of the Vietnam war on Soviet-American relations see W illiam, Zimmerman, “Soviet Perceptions of the United States,” in Alexander Dallin and T. B. Larson, eds., Soviet Politics Since Khrushchev (Englewood Cliffs, 1968), esp. pp. 174-79.Google Scholar

6. For a critique of the Department of State by a member of the U.S. Foreign Service (who is a former staff assistant to the undersecretary of state) see Campbell, John Franklin, “‘What Is To Be Done?'—Gigantism in Washington,” Foreign Affairs, 49, no. 1 (October 1970) : 81–99.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

7. The new Institute of the USA of the USSR Academy of Sciences, headed by G. A. Arbatov, publishes a monthly journal under the editorship of V. M. Berezhkov entitled SSh.A. : Ekonomika, Politika, Ideologiia. For an analysis of the first six issues see Merle Fainsod, “Through Soviet Eyes,” Problems of Communism, November-December 1970, pp. 59-64. An example of gross distortion by the Soviet journal is its excision of all passages favorable to the United States and all mention of China from its unauthorized publication of a condensation of Justice William O. Douglas's book, Points of Rebellion, in the issues of September and October 1970. For a short textual analysis, see the New York Times, Mar. 15, 1971, p. 2. A recent article by Arbatov on the United States is in Pravda, May 4, 1971, pp. 4-5.