A New Continent

Abstract

IN a foreword to this book, Sir Halford Mackinder describes it as “a political pamphlet of the indirect order”. There is not much indirectness in its politics for scarcely a page omits to contrast the blessings of the Soviet ré gime with the backwardness of old Russia. The tables of figures, plentifully supplied, include, as if they were facts, the estimates of the second cplan', and the reader is asked to believe that “the industry of the U.S.S.R.... works according to plan, and knows nothing of crises”.

Soviet Geography:

the New Industrial and Economic Distributions of the U.S.S.R. By N. Mikhaylov . Translated from the Russian by Natalie Rothstein. Second edition revised by the author. Pp. xviii + 229. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 10s. 6d. net.