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On the Road to Communism: Essays on Soviet Domestic and Foreign Politics . Edited by Roger E. Kanet and Ivan Volgyes. (Lawrence: The University of Kansas Press, 1972. Pp. 212. $8.50.)

The cumulative effect of the increasingly drastic distributive policies was both economic and political chaos, which led, ultimately, to the 1964 crisis and coup. Kahil touches only briefly on these factors, being of the opinion that "psychological and political considerations lie outside the purview of economists" (p. 282). His study nevertheless provides a wealth of information for the scholar interested in the politics of Brazilian development. As a case study, couched in a framework of general development economics, the material is also suggestive of processes likely to be seen in other developing countries. Given that much of Kahil's study is based on published material complete through the end of the decade of the 1960s, it is unfortunate that the author did not use it to carry his analysis beyond 1963. Effective control of Brazilian inflation was not achieved until 1969 or 1970, and we have few studies of recent Brazilian development, in contrast to the wealth of material available on the events which led to the 1964 military "revolution." The political scientists, suspecting at least a partial continuity of policy between preand post-revolutionary governments, would be especially interested in a comparison of the policies of stabilization and growth of post-1964 governments with those of growth and inflation of the earlier governments.