If historians, as some non-historians imagine, were occupied only with the detail of national past politics, they would have nothing to say to each other at an international conference. Yet leading historians have labored to create a permanent organization, the International Congress of Historical Sciences, which now holds regular quinquennial meetings with increasingly worldwide representation. At least twenty countries besides all European countries and the Soviet Union were represented at its eleventh meeting, held at Stockholm in August 1960.
Total Revolution: a Comparative Study of Germany Under Hitler, the Soviet Union Under Stalin, and China Under Mao. By C. W. Cassinelli. Studies in Comparative Politics, 10. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio Press, 1976. viii, 252 pp. $19.75, cloth. $6.25, paper.