- Introduction and recommendations to governments

Readers sympathetic to the Soviet union will no doubt find marcuse's position presentation too critical, while others no doubt will find it not critical enough.

The authors analyze their various forms, their origins, and concrete ways and attempts of their repression. Essays focus on the attention to truth and compassion under communism, but this is only one of its segments.

... An honourable, instructive and impressively able book.' The Times Higher Education Supplement.