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E. Zaleski, Stalinist Planning for Economic Growth, 1933–1952, Macmillan Press, 1980, xxxiv+788 pp. £25·00. Hannes Adomeit, Soviet Risk‐Taking and Crisis Behaviour. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1982, viii + 377 pp. £27·50. Seweryn Bialer and Thane Gustafson (eds.), Russia at the Crossroads: The 26th Congress of the CPSU. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. 223 pp. £18.00. T. H. Rigby, Archie Brown and Peter Reddaway (eds.), Authority, Power and Policy in the USSR. London and Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1980. viii+207 pp. £15·00. Hélène Carrère D'Encausse, A History of the Soviet Union 1917–1953. Vol. 1, Lenin, Revolution and Power. Vol. 2, Stalin, Order through Terror, (Translated from the French by Valence Ionescu) London and New York: Longman, 1982. 279 pp., ix+260 pp. £4–95 per vol. Martin McCauley, The Soviet Union since 1917. London and New York: Longman, 1981. xiv+290 pp. £13·95 (£6·95 paperback). Valentin Turchin, The Inertia of Fear. Translated by Guy Daniels. Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1981. xii+300 pp. £12·50. Roy Medvedev, Leninism and Western Socialism. Translated by A. D. P. Briggs. London: Verso Editions and NLB, 1981. 310 pp. £13·40 (cloth) and £4·95 (paper). L. Shapiro and J. Godson (Eds.): The Soviet Worker: Illusions and Realities, Macmillan: London 1981. xii+291 pp. £15·00. Steven Rosefielde (ed), Economic Welfare and The Economics of Soviet Socialism: Essays in Honor of Abram Bergson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), xii + 340 pp. £25. Ronald J. Hill and Peter Frank, The Soviet Communist Party. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1981, 167 pp. £10·95 hardback, £4·95 paperback. Thane Gustafson, Reform in Soviet Politics. Lessons of recent policies on land and water. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xii + 218 pp. £17·50. Alexander Shtromas, Political Change and Social Development: The Case of the Soviet Union. (Europäisches Forum, Vol. 1.) Frankfurt am Main and Berne: Verlag Peter Lang, 1981. 173 pp. Swiss francs 40·00. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, The February Revolution: Petrograd, 1917. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1981. xxii+652 pp. $25·00. E. P. Mickiewicz, Media and the Russian Public, Praeger, New York, 1981, xii + 156 pp. S. J. Paliwoda, Joint East‐West Marketing and Production Ventures. Gower Press, Aldershot, 1981, 215pp, £15. Rocky L. Rockett. Ethnic Nationalities in the Soviet Union: Sociological Perspectives on a Historical Problem. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1981, xiii + 171 pp. £17·50 April Carter, Democratic Reform in Yugoslavia: The Changing Role of the Party. Frances Pinter (Publishers), London, 1982. 285 pp. £13·50 h/b, £6–50 p/b.