"Russia in Flux"
HE first thing I wish to say about one of the most interesting books I have read for many a day, a book by John Maynard called Russia in Flux, is that it has a very inadequate title; and perhaps a very misleading title. The second is that its author states that his study "aims at presenting a clue of social and political history, along with a glimpse of the currents of thought in the Russia of the Tsars" and the result is one of the most competent and revealing studies of social life and mental developments that I have come across, The third is that the author, Sir John Maynard, is by no means a young man. He was born in 1865 and has seen long service as an Administrator in India. He is a_ member of the Fabian Society and, as far as I
know has published no other books. I can only regret that he has not done so because he has an extraordinary gift for terse expression and condensation as well as a manner of writing which makes his book a pleasure to read.-(Book review, by Winston Rhodes, 3Y A, November 25.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 2
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