JULIUS W. FRIEND is chairman for area studies on Francophone Europe at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia. He has also taught European diplomatic history and comparative politics at The George Washington University and lectured on French politics at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies summer school. He retired in 1979 from the Central Intelligence Agency as senior analyst in European affairs. He is the author of Seven Years in France: Francois Mitterrand and the Unitendended Revolution (1989) and of numerous articles on the European Left in French Politics and Society, Studies in Comparative Communism, Problems of Communism, The Washington Quarterly, and Communisme (Paris).