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Two Years That Shook the World

The Bolsheviks Come to Power, by Alexander Rabinowitch

by Leonard Schapiro

The New York Review of Books, March 31, 1977, pp. 3-5

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      12. The Polish Resistance by Leszek Kolakowski, Wlodzimierz Brus, and Adam Michnik, ..., p. 61
      13. Letters by Derwent May, Mark Amory, and Sandra Shamis, pp. 62-64
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        A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
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        How Not to Be a Critic by Nigel Dennis, pp. 22-24 - 1 Review
        Transatlantic Patterns by Martin B. Green
      7. [+]
        An American in Cuba by John Womack, pp. 25-28 - 1 Review
        Four Men: Living the Revolution by Oscar Lewis, Ruth M. Lewis, and Susan M. Rigdon
      8. The Last Laugh by George Plimpton, pp. 29-32
      9. [+]
        Writing from a Deceptive Continent by Michael Wood, pp. 33-34 - 2 Reviews
        The Borzoi Anthology of Latin American Literature by Emir Rodriguez Monegal and Thomas Colchie
        The Boom in Spanish-American Literature by Jose Donoso
      10. [+]
        The Black Upper Class by Darryl Pinckney, pp. 35-36 - 1 Review
        Certain People: America's Black Elite by Stephen Birmingham
      11. [+]
        Temptations by Thomas R. Edwards, pp. 37-38 - 2 Reviews
        The Morley Mythology by Austin M. Wright
        King-Kill by Thomas Gavin
      12. Spain by Barbara Probst Solomon, pp. 39-40
      13. South Africa by Martin Garbus, p. 41
      14. How Apartheid Works by Breyten Breytenbach, p. 42
      15. Letters by Gilles Deleuze, Noam Chomsky, and Andrzej Grzegorczyk, ..., pp. 42-44
    3. [+]
      September 15, 1977 Issue = 14 Articles
      1. [+]
        Safety Last by Andrew Hacker, pp. 3-7 - 5 Reviews
        Thinking About Crime by James Q. Wilson
        New York Cops Talk Back by Nicholas Alex
        Police: Streetcorner Politicians by William Ker Muir, Jr.
        The Growth of Crime by Leon Radzinowicz and Joan F.S. King
        Officer Down, Code Three by Pierce R. Brooks
      2. [+]
        Invader by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        Rebecca West: A Celebration by Rebecca West
      3. [+]
        Carter and Arms: No Sale by Emma Rothschild, pp. 10-14 - 1 Review
        The Arms Bazaar by Anthony Sampson
      4. [+]
        A Silent Ring by Robert Towers, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner by Jonathan Yardley
      5. [+]
        Hitler: Hard to Resist by John Kenneth Galbraith, pp. 16-18 - 1 Review
        The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945 by Peter Hoffmann
      6. [+]
        The Emergence of American Women by Willie Lee Rose, pp. 19-31 - 9 Reviews
        The Bonds of Womanhood by Nancy F. Cott
        The Feminization of American Culture by Ann Douglas
        Perish the Thought by Susan Phinney Conrad
        Dimity Convictions by Barbara Welter
        Women and Equality by William H. Chafe
        The Sex Radicals by Hal D. Sears
        We Were There by Barbara Mayer Wertheimer
        Seven Women by Judith Nies
        The Female Experience by Gerda Lerner
      7. [+]
        A Heavy Legacy by Michael Wood, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews
        Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
        The Stepdaughter by Caroline Blackwood
      8. [+]
        What Was Wrong With Darwin? by W.W. Bartley, III, pp. 34-36 - 2 Reviews
        To Be an Invalid by Ralph Colp, Jr.
        The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin by Paul H. Barrett and Charles Darwin
      9. [+]
        Anti-Barbarian by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 37-38 - 1 Review
        The Gentle Barbarian by V.S. Pritchett
      10. [+]
        Stevens at the Crossing by Denis Donoghue, pp. 39-41 - 1 Review
        Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate by Harold Bloom
      11. Letter from Las Vegas by Robert Mazzocco, pp. 42-45
      12. South African Justice by Martin Garbus, p. 46
      13. Growing Old by David Hackett Fischer and Lawrence Stone, pp. 47-48
      14. Letters by Stephen R. MacKinnon, Simon Leys, and Larry Agran, ..., pp. 49-56
    4. [+]
      September 29, 1977 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        Two Edmund Burkes? by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        The Rage of Edmund Burke by Isaac Kramnick
      2. [+]
        Nixon's Seventh Crisis by Robert Towers, pp. 8-9 - 1 Review
        The Public Burning by Robert Coover
      3. [+]
        The Wizard of the "Wizard" by Gore Vidal, pp. 10-14 - 4 Reviews
        To Please a Child by Frank Joslyn Baum and Russell P. MacFall
        The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was by Martin Gardner, Russel B. Nye, and L. Frank Baum, ...
        The Oz Scrapbook by David L. Greene and Dick Martin
        Wonderful Wizard, Marvelous Land by Raylyn Moore
      4. [+]
        The Chinese Dream Machine by Jonathan Spence, pp. 15-17 - 3 Reviews
        China and the Search for Happiness by Wolfgang Bauer
        Chinese Socialism to 1907 by Martin Bernal
        Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys
      5. The Trials of Bert and Jimmy by Garry Wills, pp. 18-20
      6. [+]
        Rigging the Lawrence Case by Nigel Dennis, p. 21 - 1 Review
        T. E. Lawrence by Desmond Stewart
      7. [+]
        The Holes in Black Holes by Martin Gardner, pp. 22-25 - 7 Reviews
        The Collapsing Universe by Isaac Asimov
        Space, Time, and Gravity by Robert M. Wald
        The Key to the Universe by Nigel Calder
        Space and Time in the Modern Universe by Paul Davies
        Ten Faces of the Universe by Fred Hoyle
        The Iron Sun by Adrian Berry
        White Holes by John Gribbin
      8. [+]
        Survival of the Fittest? by Henri Zerner, pp. 26-31 - 1 Review
        Rediscoveries in Art by Francis Haskell
      9. [+]
        Porn, Propaganda, and the Enlightenment by C.B.A. Behrens, pp. 32-33 - 3 Reviews
        The Widening Circle by Paul J. Korshin
        Priest and Parish in Eighteenth-Century France by Timothy Tackett
        Lafayette by Peter Buckman
      10. Frost's Women at Home by Richard Poirier, pp. 34-38
      11. Corrupt Sports by Eric Foner, Mark Nelson, Paul K. Hoch, and Christopher Lasch, ..., pp. 39-40
      12. Letters by James Nohrnberg, Robert M. Adams, and Albert B. Friedman, ..., pp. 41-44
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1977 = 4 Issues, 54 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 13, 1977 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        On the Western Front by Helen Muchnic, pp. 3-4 - 2 Reviews
        Prussian Nights by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
        To Be Preserved Forever by Lev Z. Kopelev
      2. [+]
        Lear's Inner Landscape by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 5-6 - 1 Review
        Nonsense and Wonder by Thomas Byrom
      3. [+]
        Imposing Gibbon by E. Badian, pp. 7-9 - 1 Review
        Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by G.W. Bowersock, John Clive, and Stephen Richards Graubard, ...
      4. [+]
        Joyce's Influence by Michael Wood, pp. 10-13 - 4 Reviews
        James Joyce in Padua by Louis Berrone and James Joyce
        Afterjoyce by Robert Martin Adams
        In the Wake of the Wake by Elliott Anderson and David Hayman
        The Consciousness of Joyce by Richard Ellmann
      5. The Assassins by Daniel Schorr, pp. 14-21
      6. [+]
        All or Nothing by Raymond Carr, pp. 22-27 - 3 Reviews
        The Spanish Anarchists by Murray Bookchin
        Durruti: The People Armed by Abel Paz
        The Anarchist Collectives by Sam Dolgoff
      7. [+]
        Power to the Experts by Thomas L. Haskell, pp. 28-33 - 1 Review
        The Culture of Professionalism by Burton J. Bledstein
      8. [+]
        A Modern Master by Gabriel Josipovici, pp. 34-37 - 1 Review
        Francois Rabelais by Donald M. Frame
      9. [+]
        On Rereading the Oz Books by Gore Vidal, pp. 38-42 - 10 Reviews
        The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
        The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
        The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum
        The Making of Wizard of Oz by Aljean Harmetz
      10. [+]
        Risorgimento and Romantic Agony by John Weightman, p. 43 - 1 Review
        Cristina: Portraits of a Princess by Beth Archer Brombert
      11. An Appeal by Vladimir Bukovsky, p. 44
      12. Letters by Charles T. Tart, Martin Gardner, and Werner Cohn, ..., pp. 45-48
    2. [+]
      October 27, 1977 Issue = 12 Articles
      1. [+]
        Being Strong by Harry Levin, pp. 3-7 - 1 Review
        Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson and Elena Wilson
      2. [+]
        A Matter of Character by Anthony Lewis, pp. 8-11 - 1 Review
        Uncertain Greatness by Roger Morris
      3. [+]
        One-Man Band by Robert Towers, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
      4. Robert Lowell, 1917-1977 by John Thompson, p. 14
      5. [+]
        Fear and DNA by P.B. Medawar, pp. 15-20 - 3 Reviews
        Playing God by June Goodfield
        Biohazard by Michael Rogers
        The Ultimate Experiment by Nicholas Wade
      6. [+]
        Compacted Doctrines by William Empson, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society by Raymond Williams
      7. [+]
        Victims of Soviet Psychiatry by Robert Coles, pp. 23-28 - 1 Review
        Psychiatric Terror by Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway
      8. [+]
        Go Back to the Cold! by Clive James, pp. 29-30 - 1 Review
        The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carre
      9. [+]
        The Ruins of Walter Benjamin by Charles Rosen, pp. 31-39 - 1 Review
        The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin
      10. [+]
        The Shadow of the Great Betrayal by Noel Annan, pp. 40-41 - 1 Review
        Ramsay MacDonald by David Marquand
      11. [+]
        Smilin' Through by Nigel Dennis, p. 42 - 1 Review
        Essays of E. B. White by E.B. White
      12. Letters by Susan Sontag, Richard Ellmann, and Ralph Colp, Jr., ..., pp. 43-48
    3. [+]
      November 10, 1977 Issue = 13 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Triumph of Dr. Johnson by Irvin Ehrenpreis, p. 3 - 1 Review
        Samuel Johnson by W. Jackson Bate
      2. Lives of the Gaolers by D.J. Enright, pp. 4-5
      3. [+]
        The Oppressor in the Next Room by Diane Johnson, pp. 6-9 - 3 Reviews
        Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
        White Rat by Gayl Jones
        Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
      4. [+]
        The Passions of Emile Zola by V.S. Pritchett, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Life and Times of Emile Zola by F.W.J. Hemmings
      5. Why Bakke Has No Case by Ronald Dworkin, pp. 11-15
      6. [+]
        The Radiant Monster by Rosemary Dinnage, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Passionate Crusader by Ruth E. Hall
      7. [+]
        Robert Frost Crosses the Missouri by Karl Miller, pp. 18-23 - 4 Reviews
        Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing by Richard Poirier
        Robert Frost: The Early Years, 1874-1915 by Lawrance R. Thompson
        Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph, 1915-1938 by Lawrance R. Thompson
        Robert Frost: The Later Years, 1938-63 by Lawrance R. Thompson and R.H. Winnick
      8. [+]
        You Can't Go Home Again by Bernard Avishai, pp. 24-27 - 1 Review
        Letters to an American Jewish Friend by Hillel Halkin
      9. [+]
        Fatal Attitudes by Donald Davie, pp. 28-29 - 2 Reviews
        The Consul's File by Paul Theroux
        The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble
      10. [+]
        The Origins of Walter Benjamin by Charles Rosen, pp. 30-37 - 1 Review
        The Origin of German Tragic Drama by Walter Benjamin
      11. Oscar Lewis and Cuba by Ruth M. Lewis, Susan M. Rigdon, and Alvin W. Gouldner, ..., pp. 38-43
      12. Letters by Steven R. Cohen, Marshall Cohen, and Raymond Rosenthal, ..., p. 44
      13. Death in Argentina by Marek Halter, pp. 45-48
    4. [+]
      November 24, 1977 Issue = 17 Articles
      1. [+]
        The Round Table in Ruins by Alison Lurie, pp. 3-5 - 1 Review
        The Book of Merlyn by T.H. White
      2. [+]
        A Hard Case by Garry Wills, pp. 6-9 - 1 Review
        Clearing the Air by Daniel Schorr
      3. [+]
        The Wonder Man by Helen Vendler, pp. 10-14 - 2 Reviews
        I Never Told Anybody by Kenneth Koch
        The Duplications by Kenneth Koch
      4. [+]
        The Siege of the Family by Christopher Lasch, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        All Our Children by Kenneth Keniston
      5. The School Play by James Merrill, p. 18
      6. [+]
        'Elusive Mr. P.' by Conor Cruise O'Brien, pp. 19-21 - 1 Review
        Charles Stewart Parnell by F.S.L. Lyons
      7. [+]
        The Hobbit Habit by Robert M. Adams, pp. 22-25 - 1 Review
        The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien and Christopher Tolkien
      8. Astrology, Hockney, Schubert by Robert Craft, pp. 26-29
      9. [+]
        The Rise of Love by J.H. Plumb, pp. 30-35 - 1 Review
        The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 by Lawrence Stone
      10. [+]
        On Ernst Gombrich by Kenneth Clark, pp. 36-37 - 3 Reviews
        Norm and Form by E.H. Gombrich
        Symbolic Images by E.H. Gombrich
        The Heritage of Apelles by E.H. Gombrich
      11. [+]
        The Lorca Murder Case by Michael Wood, pp. 38-41 - 2 Reviews
        Garcia Lorca by Mildred Adams
        Garcia Lorca, Asesinado by Jose Luis Vila-San-Juan
      12. [+]
        Mind and Body by Lincoln Kirstein, pp. 42-44 - 1 Review
        Afterimages by Arlene Croce
      13. [+]
        The Destruction of the Peasants by Theodore Zeldin, pp. 45-46 - 1 Review
        Peasants Into Frenchmen by Eugen Weber
      14. Four Poems by Jorge Luis Borges, p. 47
      15. [+]
        The Good & Great Works of Richard Hooker by H.R. Trevor-Roper, pp. 48-55 - 1 Review
        Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity by Richard Hooker and W. Speed Hill
      16. In Indonesian Prisons by Huang Wen-hsien and David Hinkley, pp. 56-57
      17. Letters by Leonid Tarassuk, Gleb Struve, and Nicolas Nabokov, ..., pp. 58-64
9. [+]
  Issues of 1978 = 18 Issues, 262 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1979 = 21 Issues, 321 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,127 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1980 = 20 Issues, 309 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 18 Issues, 296 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 21 Issues, 317 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1984 = 19 Issues, 298 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 20 Issues, 305 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 21 Issues, 313 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1987 = 21 Issues, 314 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1988 = 21 Issues, 337 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1989 = 20 Issues, 333 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1990s = 10 Years, 201 Issues, 3,320 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1990 = 21 Issues, 345 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1991 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1992 = 20 Issues, 317 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1993 = 20 Issues, 329 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1994 = 20 Issues, 315 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1995 = 20 Issues, 326 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1996 = 20 Issues, 335 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1997 = 20 Issues, 328 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1998 = 20 Issues, 344 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1999 = 20 Issues, 366 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2000s = 6 Years, 66 Issues, 1,270 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2000 = 20 Issues, 380 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 2005 = 1 Issue, 17 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 2006 = 6 Issues, 97 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 166 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 2008 = 13 Issues, 286 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 2009 = 17 Issues, 324 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 19 Issues, 402 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 2010 = 19 Issues, 402 Articles