Book Reviews and Notices : The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, Vol. II (1936-1941). BY MAX BELOFF. (New York: Oxford University Press. 1949. Pp. 434. $5.00.)

• Date: 01 December 1949
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200437
• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

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Mr. Foa is so careful in the use of statistics and of economic con-
cepts that it is disconcerting to note that a number of careless errors have
been allowed to reach print. The very first statement of the book that
Italy [116,000 sq. mi.] is about the size of New York State [47,000 sq.
mi.] is unfortunate. It was the military party who overthrew Mussolini
rather than the &dquo;scheming Fascist leaders&dquo; mentioned on pp. 9-10; the
armistice was signed on September 3, not during the last days of August
(p. 10); Badoglio’s government was reorganized in April, 1944, not 1945
(p. 11); the mass air raids were Allied rather than purely American (p.
13); the references to a committee of the Constituent Assembly (pp. 51,
90) should be to one of the Consultative Assembly. On p. 78 the author
writes dollars and means lire.
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HOWARD McGAW SMYTH.
Washington,
D. C.
The Foreign Policy of Soviet Russia, Vol. II (
1936-1941
).
BY MAX BELOFF.
(New York: Oxford University Press. 1949. Pp. 434. $5.00.)
Max Beloff has written for the Royal Institute of International Af,
fairs a valuable chronology and interpretation of Soviet foreign policy.
Emphasis is upon facts, for the book is primarily a selection of docu-
ments, memoirs and Nuremberg trial evidence filled in with current
reasonably founded rumors. Brief paragraphs at the ends of some chap-
ters and a final chapter contain the author’s opinions as to the thread...