The Long Pretense. From: National Review | Date: April 15, 1991| Author: Randolph, Allen | COPYRIGHT 1991 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

* Shortly after signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918 Lenin was asked about his intention to comply with its harsh terms. He replied: We are violating the treaty; we already violated it thirty or forty times." This brash response established a precedent in Soviet diplomacy preserved by each of Lenin's successors, including, most effectively, Mikhail Gorbachev. In The Long Pretense (Transaction, 303 pp., $19.95) Arnold Beichman traces the history of Soviet treaty diplomacy, v...

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