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The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe. By VĂĄclav Havel et al. Edited by John Keane. Introduction by Steven Lukes. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1985. 228 pp. $35.00, cloth.
Stalinâs Big-Fleet Program
In the 1930s, Joseph Stalin undertook to build one of the worldâs largest navies, a Soviet fleet of battleships and battle cruisers. He did so in the face of well known impediments and shortfalls of geography, finances, and industrial capacity and capabilityâand in the absence of an obvious and compelling strategic rationale. Why