REVIEWS
coverage of “The Ties That Bind: Immigrant Influence on U.S. Policy Toward Eastern Europe,” by Stephen A. Garrett (pp. 59–82), whose main weakness is that it fails to note quite a lot of previous studies of this field. The whole publication is an indictment of investigation that needs to be done rather than a survey of what has been quite often successfully written up in this field.
Joseph S. Roucek
City University of New York
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Retrospect. Edited by Béla K. Király & Paul Jónás. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. x, 157. $11.00.
Following very closely the appearance of N.F. Dreisziger, Ed., The Hungarian Revolution Twenty Years After, (Hungarian Readers’ Service, Ottawa, Canada, 1976), this symposium is also focused on the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, viewing from the standpoint of the passing of two decades. It contains valuable contributions of individuals who participated in the revolution together with the scholars from Europe and the U.S. Especially valuable are the sections dealing with the lack of reactions to this upheaval by Hungary’s neighbors (Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia) and the United States.
Joseph S. Roucek
City University of New York
Czechoslovakia’s Role in Soviet Strategy. By Josef Kalvoda. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1978. Pp. ix, 381. $9.75.
There has been quite an upsurge in recent years in the articles and books on Czechoslovakia. Kalvoda’s contribution is one of the best. It presents a political history of that hapless country, and is an excellent analysis of the relations by prominent Czech politicians with Moscow as well as a portrait of several democratic wishful thinkers who served the communists as useful dudes. One of the best chapters covers the disastrous role played by Beneš in Czechoslovak history. Quite valuable are the extensive bibliography and footnotes. The work gives us a lot of new light into pertinent events and a new evaluation and comprehension of most of them.
Joseph S. Roucek
City University of New York
