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Download Issue BEYOND RACE THE WEST RUSSIA'S FUTURE , DONoGHliE SUMMER 1990 T~T]H ~ VV ILSON ~UARTERLY ·I·a~81~Ba~sla~IllesSer~ ~ PLtblishedby the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars COVER STORY LATIN AMERICA 'S INDIAN &UESTION 22 Gterrilla war and teworism in Peru. Environmental debates over Bra- zil's rain forests. In these and other issues vexing nations throughout Latin Alnerica, the Indian question figures crucially. Yet few specialists have addressed it directly. Peter E Klar~n, David Maybury-Lavis, and Richard N. Adams demonstrate its il??povtance to affairs of state in Peru, Brazil, and Central A,nerica. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard points to a hopeful development in Gtlatelnala. O THE WINNING OF THE WEST RECONSIDERED 70 The frontier still provides Alnericans with myths to live by, even if we are vagllely aware that they are only Inyths. Brian ~2!Dippie shows how far scholars have gone in rewriting the history of the Wild West. IDEAS THINKING BEYOND RACE 62 Racisln is not holding black Amen'cans back. But thinking like victims is, Shelby Steels argues. je~ REFLECTIONS DEPARTMENTS HIGH-TECH TANTALUS 102 Editor's Comment 4 The electronic workplace was expected to boostproductivity. Edward Tennerexplains Periodicals 9 why it hasn't. Current Books 86 PORTRAIT OF THE CRITIC 106 DenisDonoghue looks back on his boyhood ResearchReports 138 to tlndevstand hoM, a cr'tic's,nind is fonned. Commentary 141 BACKTO RUSSIA'S FUTURE 114 Cover:Detail from Battle of the Az~ecs and Spaniards by If colnmtlnism won't hold the Soviet Union DiegoRivera (1930), h-om the GrangerCollection. New York. The original painting is pan of a mural at the former together, what will? Nicolai N. Petro describes Palacio de Cortes, now the Museo Quaunahuac, in Cuerna- the ,naking of a neM, Russian federation. vaca.Morelos. 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