200pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, black titles on spine. 8vo. Spine sun faded, bumped ends. Top of boards sun faded. Bottom corners bumped. Top edge discoloured, outer edge foxing. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Light foxing to pre-lim pages. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Published in 1948, a contemporary look at recent Russian history and power relationships, intended not to be a criticism or defence of the Soviet system, but an attempt to estimate how that system is likely to behave under the pressure of a new and unstable balance of power.
