HARRY HODGKINSON. The Language of Communism. Pp. xiii, 149. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, n. d. $3.75

• Published date: 01 March 1956
• DOI: 10.1177/000271625630400166
• Author: Nicholas P. Vakar
• Date: 01 March 1956
• Subject Matter: Articles

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closer than Professor Kelsen appears on oc-
Thus, it is difficult to follow the strands of
casion to think.
Social relations are not
thought of the four principal individuals
even intelligible apart from the normative
when they are tangled and meshed again in
order, for they always involve rights and
almost every chapter. Dr. Haimson’s style,
obligations. It is surely one of the many
which is somewhat affected by sociological
faults of the Marxists, as social theorists,
jargon, is to some degree responsible for
that they do not admit this, but treat so-
this confusion.
cial relations as somehow quite separate
In the conclusion, which is quite excel-
from morals and from law. I hope that
lent, he pulls together his ideas on &dquo;con-
Professor Kelsen does not agree with them.
sciousness&dquo; and &dquo;spontaneity&dquo; as two estab-
JOHN PLAMENATZ
lished conflicting categories.
This is a
Nuffield College
stimulating and perceptive chapter, but one
Oxford, England
is struck by the lack of connection between
it and the body of the volume.
LEOPOLD H. HAIMSON. The Russian Marx-
ROBERT F. BYRNES
ists and the Origins of Bolshevism. Pp.
Mid-European Studies Center
viii, 246. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
New York, N. Y.
University Press, 1955. $5.50.
This volume, which is conceived by Dr.
HARRY HODGKINSON.
The Language of
Haimson
Communism.
as the first of a series
Pp. xiii, 149. New York:
on the de-
velopment of Bolshevism in Russia,
Pitman
at-
Publishing Corporation, n. d.
tempts to accomplish several tasks in hardly
$3.75.
more than two hundred pages of text. It is
To students of foreign affairs, Soviet
an essay on the evolution of the Russian
Russian its a growing headache against
intelligentsia, a study of the reception given
which little remedy is offered in our class-
Marxism in Russia and of the transforma-
rooms and special literature.
The theory
tion of Marxism there, an analysis of the
prevails that Russian is the language of
emergence of...