Abstract
THE history both of the U.S.S.R. and of the colonial territories of European States illustrates the impact of the ideas and activities of the West upon less-advanced peoples, and these two books together provide material for a comparative study which is of particular interest at the present time.
Colonial Policy and Practice
A Comparative Study of Burma and Netherlands India. By J. S. Furnivall. Pp. xiii + 568. (Cambridge : At the University Press, 1948.) 36s. net.
Soviet Economic Development since 1917
By Maurice Dobb. Pp. vii + 474. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1948.) 18s. net.
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BRUCE, M. Colonial Policy and Practice Soviet Economic Development since 1917. Nature 161, 908–909 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161908a0
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