Fischer's Book Claims Russia Could Win War

A Junior Fellow in Russian History casts serious doubts on the West's chances in all out war with Russia, in a book to be released today by the University Press.

George Fischer, former director of the Ford Foundation's East European Fund and a student in Russia for 11 years before World War II, says in his "Soviet Opposition to Stalin": "At present the U.S.S.R. is far better geared, not only militarily but also geographically and propaganda-wise than it was against the German surprise attack of 1941."

Most of the book deals with "the vastly complex attitude of native opposition to the "passive disaffection" is a key factor in the U.S.S.R. but that "in the foreseeable future, organized anti-Stalin movements-the decisive form of Soviet opposition-will not displace the present regime in time of peace."