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Sir Bernard Pares, The Fall of the Russian Monarchy (1939; detailedtreatment of Nicholas II, the court, the ministers, and the War of 1914).10. THE REVOLUTION AND THE SOVIET UNIONFor literature and the other arts see § 6; for religion § 5.N. de Basily, Russia under Soviet Rule (1938; informative analysisby a hostile Russian emigre); F. Borkenau, The Communist International(1938; valuable history by a hostile German ex-Communist); W. H.Chamberlin, The Russian Revolution, igiy-21 (2 vols., 1935), SovietRussia (1930; covers 1922-28), and Russia's Iron Age (1935; covers1929-34: increasingly antipathetic); J. G. Crowther, Soviet Science(1936; abridged in Pelican series, 1942; account of the main scientificinstitutions and their work); M. Dobb, * Soviet Planning and Labour inPeace and War (1942) and ' Soviet Economy and the War (1941; bothare brief but essential accounts of the fundamentals of Soviet planning,finance, economics, and labour; favourable to Communism); LouisFischer, The Soviets in World Affairs (2 vols., 1930; the most valuableaccount as yet of Soviet foreign policy; covers 1917 to 1929); M. T.Florinsky, * Towards an Understanding of the U.S.S.R, (New York,1939; short, critical analysis of Soviet institutions); S.N. Harper, 'TheGovernment of the Soviet Union (New York, 1937; compact, generalsurvey); History of the Civil War in the U.S.S.R., vol. 1 (1937; introductoryvolume going down to early October 1917; the second volume(1942) has not yet been translated; official Communist Party publicationby various authors); History of the Communist Party of the SovietUnion (Bolsheviks) (1938; the latest official history issued by theParty); C. B. Hoover, The Economic Life of Soviet Russia (1931; oneof the best studies of conditions and developments down to 1930);Beatrice King, Changing Man; the Education System of the U.S.S.R.(1936; well informed at first hand; a strong admirer); H. Kohn,Nationalism in the Soviet Union (1933; study of Soviet nationalitiespolicy); Lenin, vols. 6-12 of his Selected Works (1936-39); Sir JohnMaynard, * The Russian Peasant and Other Studies (1942; despite thetitle covers also most other aspects of Soviet life and institutions;independent, very informative and very understanding); D. S. Mirsky,*Lenin (1931; brief biography); Sir Bernard Pares, ' Russia (1940,Penguin series; study of Russia and the Russians in the last fortyyears); A. Rosenberg, A History of Bolshevism (1934; history of theParty, and the Comintern, down to 1932, by a German ex-Communist);Stalin, Leninism (vol. 1, 1928; vol. 2, 1933; another, different edition,1940; comprising articles and speeches 1924-38) and Marxism and theNational and Colonial Question (1936; articles and speeches on thesubject); T. A. Taracouzio, War and Peace in Soviet Diplomacy (NewYork, 1940; the only attempt at a critical analysis of Soviet foreignpolicy covering so much ground, viz. 1917 to 1939); L. Trotsky, TheHistory of the Russian Revolution (3 vols., 1932-33; covers the backgroundand the whole of 1917, but not later; a very remarkable work;written in exile; to be used with caution) and The Real Situation inRussia (1928) and The Revolution Betrayed (1937; the two most455