From Dave Windsor In the Morning Star of last Thursday, Sam Russell - a long standing writer for the paper who has held various journalist and editorial jobs on it - had this to say when reviewing a new Soviet history book: "The latest Short History of the U.S.S.R. (Progress Publishers, Moscow and Central Books, London, 2 vols. 30s) is competently translated from the Russian, The first volume, written by an editorial board of four, with six other historians, traces the story from paleolithic times to the formation of the ancient State of Rus in 882 and then to the February Revolution in
"The two volumes give.a general idea of how the Soviet Union has developed, particularly in the industrial field, to become the Great Power that it is today. Unfortunately this latest history adds nothing to our knowledge of the problem of the Stalin personality cult. Is it too much to hope that by the time’ the 50th anniversary of the Revolution. is celebrated next year, -Soviet. historians will have produced something a little more adequate? Until-this is done, Soviet historians will be. leaving the field free for the flood of alleged histories which continue to pour from the presses in ~~the West, including Britain...