+ − Review 3:377 O 27 ’20 950w + R of Rs 62:446 O ’20 80w Spec 125:470 O 9 ’20 1500w
“Delightfully entertaining work. Not once in a blue moon do lovers of good literature fall upon anything so richly suggestive, so charmingly satisfying.” Lilian Whiting
+ Springf’d Republican p9a O 3 ’20 2300w
“Mr Mallock in the lucidity of his style, in his confident logic and graceful sense of proportion, in his fastidiousness and his cynical undertones, betrays the mind of the eighteenth-century aristocrat.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p597 S 16 ’20 1800w
MALONE, CECIL L’ESTRANGE. Russian republic. *$1 (4½c) Harcourt 947
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As the basis for an opinion as to the possibilities of peace negotiations with Soviet Russia, the author undertook an examination of the political, social and military conditions there at first hand, by a personal visit. The book records his findings in diary form interspersed with interviews, conversations and personal reflections. Throughout, the author draws a comparison with the French revolution and concludes that the only way to head off a military dictatorship in Russia is through one of two policies; the unthinkable one of making war on her on a grand scale, or “to make every effort to give the Soviet republic internal and external peace, and to establish commercial bonds with them, to the great blessing of mankind and to the prosperity of all countries.” Contents: Introductory; To Petrograd; Moscow; Social reconstruction; Trotsky and the red army; Industry; Religion and women; The peace terms; Homeward bound; Conclusions; Appendix—Prinkipo and Nansen.
Booklist 16:308 Je ’20