13 MARCH 1942, Page 4

I once recommended in this 'column two admirable sixpenny books

or booklets on Soviet Russia, Sir Bernard Pares' Russia in the Penguin Books, and Jennie Lee's Russia Our Ally. For the benefit of those, if any, who can run to a shilling in these days, let me add Soviet Russia, by K. Gibberd, just published by the Royal Institute of International Affairs. It contains no opinions, or next to none, but, what is much better, unvarnished facts on the basis of which the intelligent reader can form opinions of