China management of a revolutionary society reviewed
A 1969 conference based collection on government in China is analyzed for its breadth and rigor. The review notes varied depth across papers, highlights strong work on provincial politics and media by Frederick C. Teiwes, critiques Luci Pye on mass participation, and observes Western assumptions coloring interpretations. The editor John Lindhbeck is praised, with caveats about access limits and the publication’s high price.
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China
University of Washington Press
John Lindhbeck
Dhacussamts
Partes Pants
Informa
Luci Pye
Peetress
Himes
Comehudes
Pye
A Distortion of Truth The Twenty Five Days review
Peter Bolger argues that John Masefield The Twenty Five Days distorts war ethics and portrays Gallant BEF soldiers as noble amid retreat. The critique labels the book propaganda, mocks its moral judgments, and calls its wartime stance a disturbing, hypocritical portrayal of World War II evacuation events.
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Masefield
BEF
Low Countries
Crerman
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Found
Lev Kapolev brought a manuscript to Navy Mir that would launch Russia’s greatest contemporary novelist. Alexander Tvardovsky read it, vowed to publish, and made it his life’s mission to bring One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich to print after Khrushchev’s revelations.
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Lev Kapolev
Navy Mir
Russia
Kapolev
Soviet Communist Party
Whic
Khrushchev
Stalin
Ropoley
Ivan Denisovich
One Day in the Life of Jean Denisovich published in 1962
Maurice Dunevy describes Khrushchev using a short novel as a political tool during destalinisation. The Novy Mir story by Solzhenitsyn drew mass attention, triggering long library queues in Kharkov and widespread public impact amid Soviet censorship.
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Russia
Khrushchev
Hin
Stalin
Jean Denisovich
Novy Mir
Russi
Kharkov
Kharekov
Solzhenitsyn biography sparks debate over truth and life
A new full-length study by David Burg and George Feifer on Solzhenitsyn’s life and the publication of One Day details the author’s rise from an obscure schoolteacher to a Nobel laureate and the pressures, bans, and harassments surrounding his biographers.
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Moscow
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn
David Burg
George Feifer
Hodder and Stoughton
Macmillan
Solzhenittsyn
Heeb
Books About Aborigines in Recent Publications
Maurice Dunlevy surveys three new works on Aboriginal Australia. Kenneth Maddock offers The Australian Aborigines, a scholarly general anthropological survey. Lorna Lippmann presents Words or Blows, a readable critique of race relations and fringe-dweller studies. Henry Reynolds collects historical documents in Aborigines and Letters, framed by nine thematic categories.
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Australia
Kenneth Maddock
Allen Lane
The
Penguin Press
10 Price
Tropp
Lorna Lippmann
Penguin
Ipmunn
Maurice Dunlevy
Pasua New Guinea
J. W. c . Davison
Pacific Wising
ANU
Pupusa
Mer Lea Tannert
Papua New Crimea
Ean
New Guinea Research Unit
Apa New Guinea
Avtol di
J. DB. B. Miller
Whitaker's Almanack 1973 edition overview
The 63rd Whitaker's Almanack 1973 edition claims strict adherence to publisher principles with densely packed information across a frighteningly wide range of subjects sold for £3 35 in the UK.
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Whitaker
Books for the Young: Ballet on Tour and Riders of the Storm
Review contrasts Ballet on Tour with Riders of the Storm, noting Belgrade Ballet School’s provincial tour is tepid and overlong while Riders of the Storm, set in Manchester in 1793, delivers drama, reformist stakes, and strong period atmosphere. The piece also surveys The First Summer Year Kaleku and Bush Walkabout, praising photography and cultural detail but criticizing narrative structure and timing.
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Belgrade Ballet School
Batlet
Manchester
Stephen Parkin
Paris
Enjamin Winter
Joel Bankes
Axel Poignant
Surenough
Arnhem Land
Shigi
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John Masefield
William = Heinemann Ltd
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Holland
Belgium
Munkirk
Gallipoli
John Mascheld
Vietnam
Canberra
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Kent Street
Sydney
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Reta
Writers’ Union
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Feller
London
Veronika Turkina
Solzenitsyn
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Jonathan Cape
Michael Glenny
Paris Pasternak
Bulgakov
Anna Akhmatova
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Hans J. Breiteral
Rigby
Yugoslavia
Prodanovic
Oaferd University Press
Riders OF the Storm
Itv
Tin Kellan
Oxford University Press
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Roslin
Aneus and Robertson
Bush
Poignant News and Robertson
Jean Rangecroft
Burton
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Grembul
JR. R. Tolkien
Osmica
Gandal
Mer
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Chimbu
New Guinea Highlands
Roslyn
Papua New Guinea
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