Wary Partners: The Soviet Union and Arab Socialism

by Robin Buss, Institute for Strategic Studies (London England)

The author defines Arab Socialism, discusses the Arab "non-capitalist path", and presents four case Arab Socialist Union in the UAR, the Ba'ath Party, Socialism in Algeria, and the Fedayeen.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published September 4, 2006

About the author

Robin Buss was an English translator, journalist, film critic and Francophile. As well as French, he was fluent in Russian, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Welsh. As a film critic, he championed French film noir and published three works on European cinema. He wrote critical studies of works by Vigny and Cocteau, and became a leading translator of classic French fiction, making Zola, Sartre, Dumas and others accessible to English-speakers.