This War Called Peace by Brian Crozier; Drew Middleton; Jeremy Murray-BrownReview by: John C. CampbellForeign Affairs, Vol. 63, No. 5 (Summer, 1985), p. 1125Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20042420 .

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U.S. policy, among others. In all, these are solid, thoughtful essays deserving of a close reading.

THIS WAR CALLED PEACE. By Brian Crozier, Drew Middleton, and

Jeremy Murray-Brown. New York: Universe, 1985, 315 pp. $17.95. Three prominent journalists, in the belief that the West has been bam

boozled by illusions of peaceful coexistence and d?tente ever since Yalta and needs further schooling in the nature of the Soviet regime, have

provided a rapid-fire history of four decades of Soviet policy and East-West relations. Most of the narrative is well-founded in fact, but there is little

weighing of the evidence on debatable points (and no citations). The

emphasis is on the message: that the communists continue to employ any outrage, cruelty or falsehood to gain their ends, and that the West (in

particular, the liberals and the news media) continues to be too gullible to

realize it.

BEHIND THE LINES: THE PRIVATE WAR AGAINST SOVIET CEN SORSHIP. By Donald R. Shanor. New York: St. Martin's, 1985, 172 pp. $13.95.

A veteran newspaperman who knows the Soviet scene treats the subject of information and communication from several angles. On the manage ment of information as an instrument of power and control, he gives a standard account. On the efforts of Western media to reach the Soviet

public, he writes with welcome candor. He is most interesting, if more

speculative, when he writes about the "underground telegraph" by which Soviet citizens inform themselves and each other of facts they do not get from the official media. One well-argued conclusion, portentous for the

future, is that in time the technological revolution in communications will make it impossible for the Soviet government to keep the Soviet population

insulated from the rest of the world.

RELIGION AND NATIONALISM IN SOVIET AND EAST EURO PEAN POLITICS. Edited by Pedro Ramet. Durham (N.C.): Duke Univer

sity Press, 1985, 282 pp. $35.00. Nationalism and religion in this region are interlocked: sometimes in

harmony, sometimes in mutual hostility, always a problem, separately or

together, for the communist regimes which seek to instill their own higher loyalty in the people. The patterns are infinitely complex from country to

country. Here the authors, each a specialist in his own field, take rather different approaches, and the coverage, especially of the Soviet Union, is

spotty. But the editor has tried, with moderate success, to pull things together, and the book as a whole excels in its balanced treatment of both

background and current policies.

COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE. 2nd ed. Edited by Teresa Ra kowska-Harmstone. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984, 400 pp. $25.00 (paper, $8.95).

There is always room for a new, authoritative and up-to-date survey of the politics and economics of Eastern Europe, so quick is the pace of change.

This revised version of an earlier volume (reviewed in Foreign Affairs, October 1979), with a slightly changed cast of contributors, is therefore welcome. Poland, the center of attraction in recent years, is well covered

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