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222 Reviewsreference are given on the following page, but with no connection made between thetwo passages.)A number of important questions are hinted at and never developed. The questionof Ukrainian politics and the role of industrialization envisioned by theUkrainian Communist leadership is mentioned in passing but not developed. In asimilar vein, there is no organized discussion of any effects of change in the ethnicstructure of the work force and of the Communist party membership as Ukrainianscome to be the majority ethnic group at Dneprostroi. The Millar-Nove debate on the"contribution" of collectivization to the First Five-Year Plan is included in thebibliography but is never introduced into the discussion.The volume began as a Ph.D. dissertation completed in 1980. The sources arethose that were available at the time: newspapers, journals, memoirs, even interviews,but no archival materials. Though the sources have been well used, there canbe little doubt that were the book to be rewritten today, it would be richer and betterfleshed out in content. In addition, the oppressive weight of Lenin—his "initiatives,"directives, conceptions—apparently absorbed unconsciously from the Soviet secondaryliterature, would be much less, and a more critical understanding of the intellectualand political currents that underlay Dneprostroi would emerge.In many ways, this volume may be compared to Dneprostroi. After all, the damand power station were completed—however wastefully and at whatever humanprice—produced the electricity that powered the region's industrialization, and werethe first collecting point for a dispossessed peasantry in its transition to urban, industriallife. Anne Rassweiler has made her point, and, if her method is regrettablyfaulty, her focus on a significant case study is bold and well-conceived and will helplater historians of Soviet industrialization analyze other key developments that mayshed light on the formative years of the Soviet system.Theodore H. FriedgutHebrew University of JerusalemKO-OPS: THE REBIRTH OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THESOVIET UNION. By Anthony Jones and William Moskoff. Bloomingtonand Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. 154 pp.$12.95.This book was written as an account of contemporary reality. It comes to us, thereadership, as an essentially historical essay. With the fall of Gorbachev and thebreak-up of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991, the world of perestroïka fell apart,the credo of Soviet socialism/communism was finally abandoned, and the peculiarlySoviet constraints on entrepreneurship (even in the context of "radical reform")which had given birth to a "new" cooperative movement were abandoned.