Briefer Notice

The Rise of the Soviet Empire
by Jan Librach
Praeger University Series, 380 pp., $2.50

The following statement appears on page 77 of this book: “It is possible that the Kremlin, fearing the adverse effect a Communist rule in Spain would have in France and England, did not press for the establishment of a Soviet Republic. In 1934 Moscow appeared to limit itself to ‘guiding’ the weak leftwing government, not openly dominated by Communists. This was the time of the Communist popular front line. . .” Any elementary textbook would tell the author that in 1934 Spain had a right-wing government which suppressed an uprising of the miner...