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Peter G. Boyle. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism. London and. New York: Routledge, 1993. xiv, 320 pp. $65.00.

Peter G. Boyle. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism.... Communist "specialists' who served the regime in various capacities. Their position became increasingly perilous from the late 1920s on, and almost all were killed or disappeared during the purges of 1937-38. Despite the fact that Hardeman has been working on the smenovekhovtsy for over a decade and knows them and their work intimately, she has achieved a remarkable detachment in her assessment of them. She is especially careful not to claim originality or brilliance for their ideas or undue significance for their achievements. On the question of their right to be acknowledged as legitimate successors to the Vekhi writers, her judgment is fundamentally negative. Their shopworn arguments combined the murky idealism and glib positivism that had characterized the old intelligentsia at its worst. They like the Vekhi authors attempted "to place the absolute values of nation and state above the relative values of politics," but they failed to , heed Vekhi's "urgent appeal for the intelligentsia's moral and spiritual education." (pp. 189-90) Donald Senese University o f Victoria Peter G. Boyle. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall o f C o m m u - nism. L o n d o n a n d http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Peter G. Boyle. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism. London and. New York: Routledge, 1993. xiv, 320 pp. $65.00.

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Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 30 (2-4): 336 – Jan 1, 1996
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Communist "specialists' who served the regime in various capacities. Their position became increasingly perilous from the late 1920s on, and almost all were killed or disappeared during the purges of 1937-38. Despite the fact that Hardeman has been working on the smenovekhovtsy for over a decade and knows them and their work intimately, she has achieved a remarkable detachment in her assessment of them. She is especially careful not to claim originality or brilliance for their ideas or undue significance for their achievements. On the question of their right to be acknowledged as legitimate successors to the Vekhi writers, her judgment is fundamentally negative. Their shopworn arguments combined the murky idealism and glib positivism that had characterized the old intelligentsia at its worst. They like the Vekhi authors attempted "to place the absolute values of nation and state above the relative values of politics," but they failed to , heed Vekhi's "urgent appeal for the intelligentsia's moral and spiritual education." (pp. 189-90) Donald Senese University o f Victoria Peter G. Boyle. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall o f C o m m u - nism. L o n d o n a n d

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