Why They Behave Like Russians

viii, 262pp. In blue-cloth covered boards with gilt and red decorations and gilt lettering front and spine. Boards are a little rounded on corners, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket (worn, lightly chipped at edges with minor loss at spine tips and rear leading corner). A 4pp folded leaflet, providing a review of the book by J P Marquand, loosely laid in. Proclaimed at the time of its publication as a 'valuable account by an intelligent observer of life and conditions in Russia today...it breathes sincerity and fairness'. Fischer identifies a number of factors which influence the behaviour of Russians in the mid 20th century, including the havoc wrought by Nazi invaders during the second world war leaving the nation with a conviction that it can never again let its security be jeopardised.