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Book Notes GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS, VOLUME 3. Compiled by C. A. Burmester. (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1980.) Pp. viii + 557. $10.50. SIR JOHN LATHAM, A GUIDE TO HIS PAPERS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA. (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1980.) Microfiche. $3.50. Another 408 entries are listed in the latest Guide and nearly 600 more are promised for the next to bring the total to nearly 2000. It is an indispensable aid to the efficient use of the various catalogues which lie behind it. These will include detailed listings of the kind now being made available on microfiche-for example, the 82 series of Sir John Latham’s papers. Entries in the Guides list materials on a given topic that may be catalogued in different collections in the Library; they also include brief descriptive notes on each topic. PROSTITUTION AND VICTORIAN SOCIETY: Women, Class, and the State. By Judith R. Walkowitz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.) Pp. x + 347. f15.00. This long book is divided into three roughly equal parts. The first two, entitled ‘Prostitution, Social Science, and Venereal Disease’ and ‘The Contagious Diseases Acts, Regufationists, and Repeaters’, contain wordy and repetitive surveys of what is now well-known ground. Paul McHugh’s book on the same subject, which slightly preceded this one, is at once less pretentious and much more acute and lucid, especially on the mechanics of the repeal agitations. Walkowitz’s study is saved by the third section which presents detailed local studies of prostitutes, and campaigners against the Acts in two proclaimed districts, Plymouth and Southampton. The weak, shortlived movement Dr Walkowitz depicts seems to negate many of the big claims she makes for the opposition in the first two-thirds of her book. There is also an especially good chapter on the lock wards of the local hospitals. ROY MEDVEDEV. On Soviet Dissent: Interviews with Pierro Ostellino. Edited by George Saunders. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.) Pp. viii + 158. $15.50. Roy Medvedev. the historian twin brother of biologist Zhores Medvedev, is a controversial figure. A convinced Marxist, he remains committed to a social democratic, pluralist vision of the Soviet future, a future which will eventuate, he argues, only from internal changes generated by Soviet society itself. Medvedev admits to a definite decline in the dissident movement during the 1970s owing to severe repression by the regime, which has caused the dissidents to squabble among themselves and concentrate on rescuing as many of their colleagues as possible by reliance on Western publicity, instead of focussing on the main issue of social and political reform of the Soviet system. The picture he presents in the recorded dialogues with Italian correspondent Ostellino and an up-dated epilogue is a gloomy one, but Medvedev expresses confidence that a revival of genuine dissent is inevitable. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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GUIDE TO THE COLLECTIONS, VOLUME 3. Compiled by C. A. Burmester. (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1980.) Pp. viii + 557. $10.50. SIR JOHN LATHAM, A GUIDE TO HIS PAPERS IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA. (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1980.) Microfiche. $3.50. Another 408 entries are listed in the latest Guide and nearly 600 more are promised for the next to bring the total to nearly 2000. It is an indispensable aid to the efficient use of the various catalogues which lie behind it. These will include detailed listings of the kind now being made available on microfiche-for example, the 82 series of Sir John Latham’s papers. Entries in the Guides list materials on a given topic that may be catalogued in different collections in the Library; they also include brief descriptive notes on each topic. PROSTITUTION AND VICTORIAN SOCIETY: Women, Class, and the State. By Judith R. Walkowitz. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.) Pp. x + 347. f15.00. This long book is divided into three roughly equal parts. The first two, entitled ‘Prostitution, Social Science, and Venereal Disease’ and ‘The Contagious Diseases Acts, Regufationists, and Repeaters’, contain wordy and repetitive surveys of what is now well-known ground. Paul McHugh’s book on the same subject, which slightly preceded this one, is at once less pretentious and much more acute and lucid, especially on the mechanics of the repeal agitations. Walkowitz’s study is saved by the third section which presents detailed local studies of prostitutes, and campaigners against the Acts in two proclaimed districts, Plymouth and Southampton. The weak, shortlived movement Dr Walkowitz depicts seems to negate many of the big claims she makes for the opposition in the first two-thirds of her book. There is also an especially good chapter on the lock wards of the local hospitals. ROY MEDVEDEV. On Soviet Dissent: Interviews with Pierro Ostellino. Edited by George Saunders. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.) Pp. viii + 158. $15.50. Roy Medvedev. the historian twin brother of biologist Zhores Medvedev, is a controversial figure. A convinced Marxist, he remains committed to a social democratic, pluralist vision of the Soviet future, a future which will eventuate, he argues, only from internal changes generated by Soviet society itself. Medvedev admits to a definite decline in the dissident movement during the 1970s owing to severe repression by the regime, which has caused the dissidents to squabble among themselves and concentrate on rescuing as many of their colleagues as possible by reliance on Western publicity, instead of focussing on the main issue of social and political reform of the Soviet system. The picture he presents in the recorded dialogues with Italian correspondent Ostellino and an up-dated epilogue is a gloomy one, but Medvedev expresses confidence that a revival of genuine dissent is inevitable.

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