THE COMMUNIST PATTERN
Sir,-It was surprising to see your teviewer "W.B.S." (Listener, July 2) passing off Professor Seton-Watson’s The Pattern of Communist Revolution as-in part, at least-an exploitation of a popular interest in anti-Communism. The book was in response to a popular interest in Communism, but not in antiCommunism. I have read the book and found in it a resolute attempt to be fair. It is careful and scholarly and shows Professor Seton-Watson to be intimately informed, particularly in relation to Russia and Eastern Europe. This is not surprising since the author knows the languages and the customs of these people, and has a deep sympathy with their suffering first under the Tsars and then under Communism. As a person without the time or the inclination to tackle longer works on the sub‘ect, and as a person endowed with an average quota of common sense, I found the book very useful. Furthermore, I am one of those who have not ranged themselves in one camp against another, and therefore able to see that there is as much danger in deprecating anti-Communists as there is in deprecating those with Left..ten-
dencies.
A.B.
C
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 5
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193THE COMMUNIST PATTERN New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 784, 30 July 1954, Page 5
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