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Abstract
It is unfortunate that Mr. Tumanov has hinged his criticism of my book on a personal attack on my motivations in writing it. In a letter to the editor of Soviet State and Law, sent in March 1966, I have replied to the charges that the book bears "an openly hostile character," that I am "an adherent of extreme right utterances," that I "did not wish to see anything positive in Soviet law," that I "did not wish to approach Soviet law objectively," that I wrote the book in the interests of war and not of peace, etc., etc. The irony of such an attack will be apparent to those readers who are aware that in the United States some reviewers have accused me of lack of objectivity for just the opposite reasons, claiming that I have exaggerated the positive features of Soviet law. Indeed, the very same theories, presented in the book, that have apparently led Mr. Tumanov to ascribe to it an anti-Soviet bias have led some American reviewers to ascribe to it a pro-Soviet bias.