Book reviews

Beyond the Cold War: Soviet and American Media Images edited by E.E. Denis, G. Gerbner and Y.N. Zassoursky. London: Sage, 1991. Pp.x + 180; index. £30 (hardback); £14.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 8039 3900 0 and 3901 9

Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power: The Post Stalin Era by V. Shlapentokh. London: Tauris, 1990. Pp.xvii + 311; index. £19.95 (hardback). ISBN 1 8053 284 8

Socialism and the Idea of the Nation by John Schwartzmantel. London: Harvester ‐ Wheatsheaf, 1991. Pp.ix 261; index. £10.95. ISBN 0 7450 1003 2

Marx and Modern Fiction by Edward J Ahearn. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp.xi + 231; index. £22.50 (hardback); £8.50 (paperback). ISBN 0 300 04356 2 and 05024 0

Fatal Half Measures: The Culture of Democracy in the Soviet Union by Yevgeny Yevtushenko; edited and translated by Antonina W. Bouis.Boston, Toronto and London: Little, Brown, 1991. Pp.xiii + 357; index. $21.95 (hardback). ISBN 0 316 96883 8

Time of Change by R. Medvedev and G. Chiesa. London and New York. Tauris, 1991. Pp.xvi + 346; index. £17.95 (hardback). ISBN 1 85043 305 4

For a New Russia: The Mayor of St Petersburg's Own Story of the Struggle for Justice and Memocracy by A. Sobchak. New York: The Free Press, 1992. Pp. xiv + 191. Index. ISBN 0 02 929720 2

Road to Power: The Trans‐Siberian Railroad and the Colonization. of Asian Russia, 1850–1917 by Steven G. Marks. London: Tauris, 1991. Pp.xxi + 240; index, maps. £19.95 (hardback). ISBN 1 85043 345 3

Umbruch zur Moderne? Kritische Beiträge, edited by Michael Brie and Dieter Klein Hamburg: VSA‐Verlag, 1991. ISBN 387975 555 8

Grandes plumes dans I'Humanité edited by R. Ballet. Paris: Messidor, 1990. Pp.421; index. Ff. 125 (paperback). ISBN 2 209 06273 X

How Far We Slaves Have Come! by Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro, with a Preface by Mary‐Alice Waters. New York: Pathfinder, 1991. Pp.83; index. $7.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 87348 729 X