The Changing Soviet Union: Implications for Canada and the World; Soviet Economic Policy Under Perestroika; The Soviet High Command 1967-1989: Personalities and Politics; The Rise of Nations in the Soviet Union: American Foreign Policy and the Disintegration of the USSR; The Changing Western Analysis of the Soviet Threat
Writing in The New York Review of Books last November, Peter Reddaway suggested that works of Sovietology published before the failed August coup would now invariably be judged by how far they pointed to, or least allowed for, perestroika’s abrupt dénouement in…
The People of Nowhere
Danny Rubinstein’s recently-published The People of Nowhere will be a valuable source of information and analysis on a contentious subject. Books on the Middle East tend to have strong emotional content reflecting their authors’ political convictions. It is refreshing that Rubinstein has…
Letters // Correspondance
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Faith and Fear: The Free Trade Story
In the Spring 1992 issue of bout de papier, Michael Hart concentrated his considerable firepower on two books by Linda McQuaig and Mel Hurtig claiming that the 1988 Canada-US Free Trade Agreement represented the abdication of Canadian independence, the seduction of Ottawa…
Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! Requiem for a Divided Country
Faut-il s’étonner que la presse écrite et parlée de langue anglaise ait prêté un intérêt démesuré au pamphlet de Mordecai Richler : Oh Canada! Oh Quebec! qui reste, au bout du compte, une resucée de son article du New Yorker? À la…
A Man of Big Heart: The Memoirs of Maurice Mitchell
The Canadian Immigration Historical Society is to be applauded for its decision to publish the diaries and memoirs of civil servants who have been on the front lines of Canadian immigration. Without such a publication program, many such documents might never emerge…
Reluctant Adversaries
Canada is now at one of the lowest points in our long relationship with China. Canada’s offer of permanent residence to PRC citizens unwilling to return to China after June 1989 and her strong stand on human rights issues have irked the…
Citizens Irving — K.C. Irving and His Legacy
John DeMont was raised in Saint John, New Brunswick, within the sight, sound and smell of the Irving pulp and paper mill. He rode on Irving buses fuelled with Irving gasoline refined in Irving’s Saint John refinery, Canada’s largest. Riding across town…
World Bank World Development Report 1991
In his Foreword to the 14th World Development Report (WDR), the outgoing World Bank President, Barber Conable, articulates the major themes of the latest version, on “The Challenge of Development” which emphasizes both history and the future:
Children of Glasnost: Growing Up Soviet
Recent years have seen a massive outpouring of works that have attempted to describe and account for the revolution that Mikhail Gorbachev unwittingly launched in 1985. Few have successfully met the dizzying challenge of Soviet change. Events there have been moving so…
