What Russia Tells Itself: I. War, Peace, and the U. S. A.

The Korean war is in its third month and although one has been hearing all this time that "Russia is behind it" and that it is all too likely to lead to a Third World War, not a single paper in the West has, to the author's knowledge, taken the trouble to find out what the Russians really think about it or what they intend to do. One looks in vain for a critical analysis of Russian aims or even of the Russian point of view. A classical objection to any attempt to assess the Soviet standpoint is, of course: "How can one possibly tell what's going on at the Kremlin or in the back of Soviet premier Joseph Stalin's mind?"