The People of Great Russia: A Psychological Study
by and .Chanticleer Press, $3.00.
A physician and an anthropologist join the mass movement to elucidate the “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Dr. Rickman contributes ten remarkable sketches of peasant life (19161918) in Russia. Gorer furnishes a more clinical diagnosis, which, though lacking the authority of firsthand observation — it is based on interviewing and documentary study — has fresh and persuasive insights to offer. Gorer’s most provocative interpretations grow out of his “swaddling hypothesis” — his original theory that the Russian practice of tight]y swaddling infants has certain lasting and pronounced emotional consequences.