Bakounine: combats et débatsReview by: E. H. CarrThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 59, No. 2 (Apr., 1981), p. 317Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4208310 .

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in the texts (pp. 53o-38); the nominal participle (pp. 539-660); con- clusions (pp. 661-78); statistical tables (on the last three, unnumbered pages). London H. LEEMING

Bakounine: combats et debats. Collection historique de l'Institut d'etudes slaves, Vol. xxvi. Institut d'etudes slaves, Paris, 1979. 256 pp. Index. 70 F.

THIS volume, written by Bakunin specialists for Bakunin specialists, is suitably opened by their doyen, Arthur Lehning, with a review of the scattered and abundant historical sources of Bakunin's career. This is followed by a comprehensive bibliographical study by Pierre Pechoux of Bakunin's works and correspondence; where Steklov's Russian edition comes to a halt in i86i, this becomes a matter of some complexity, though the last eight years of Bakunin's life are being exhaustively covered in Lehning's massive edition.

The remaining contributions to the present volume relate to particular episodes or aspects of Bakunin's career. These vary in interest and novelty; some seem to do little more than provide a conspectus of earlier works on the chosen topic. The only hitherto unpublished documents to appear in the volume are Bakunin's letters of the early I86os to a Swedish dis- ciple, Sohlman, including a forty-page-long draft of the Statute of an International Secret Society for the Emancipation of Humanity. This challenges comparison with Bakunin's other, often less coherent, essays in this vein, and constitutes an important compendium of his ideas, as well as a key to the methods by which he sought to propagate them.

Cambridge E. H. CARR

Golan, Galia. rom Kippur and After: The Soviet Union and the Middle East Crisis. Soviet and East European Studies Series. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne, I977. ix + 350 pp. Bibliography. Index. ?9.oo.

Dr Golan is the director of the Soviet and East European Research Centre of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, an academic institution which has used the Soviet and Arab press to great effect in its analysis of current and recent Soviet policies. Dr Golan uses the same method in this book. She shows the complexity of the Soviet position and the various attitudes of the Soviets towards the many actors in the Middle Eastern drama, including the Palestinians and the PLO. Indeed, if any criticism should be made of this book - and I would be reluctant to make any - it is to say that the complexity of the situation is such that Dr Golan has not been able to unravel it with certainty or confidence. One should also add that the evidence is often conflicting and Dr Golan's interpretation is only one of many. There is an inflexibility in her approach to events

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