Readings in Russian foreign policy / edited By Robert A. Goldwin, Gerald Stourth and Maruin Zetterbaum.
- New York Oxford University Press 1959
- 751 p.
The purpose of this volume of readings is threefold: to serve the college and university student as primary or supplementary course material, to offer the general reader an opportunity to ac quaint himself systematically with the best thought on a wide range of the fundamental problems, and to function as the basic reading material for organized programs of adult education discus sion groups.
Several unique features distinguish this book from other books of readings and affect the ways in which it can best be used. Its main characteristic is the plan of selection and editing. The articles are grouped in sections, each about 50 to 75 pages long, intended to be read as a unit. The selections have the continuity of a debate; opposing views are deliberately juxtaposed and the reader must judge the merits of each argument. The articles within each unit will be most instructive, therefore, if they are read in the order in which they appear. The sections are also best taken up in order, for the materials in later sections assume knowledge of the issues discussed in earlier sections.