No third path.byJerzy KosinskiJoseph Novak, pseud.

No Third Path (1962) is a non-fictional book about communism in Soviet Union by Jerzy Kosinski, published under pseudonym Joseph Novak. Kosinski also published The future is ours, comrade : conversations with the Russians (1960) under the same pseudonym before publishing first and his breakthrough novel The Painted Bird (1965).

Kosinski discussed about the book and writing in English in general in Paris Review interview.

... in 1958 I sat down to write my first book in English, The Future is Ours Comrade, a nonfiction on collective behavior, I found that I could write the book, but I had great difficulty discussing its chapter with friends; even when it was published less than two years later, conversing in English did not interest me. I aimed at the written word, an expression which was articulate but abstract, a language without sound. I didn't want to meet or know my audience. In the act of writing in Enblish, I extracted a part of myself, my preoccupation with the place of individual in a collective society, hoping my American audience was eventually to be found. When it was, I followed two years later with another Novak book, No Third Path: A Study of Collective Behaviour.

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Product Description - From the Dust Jacket
This is an outstanding and most unusual report from the Soviet Union. By virtue of his education, profession, and partly Russian background the author, a social scientist from one of the countries behind the Iron Curtain, was able to combine extensive research in the Soviet Union with all the advantages of exact scholastic knowledge of Soviet theory and practice.

The fundamental intellectual goal of this penetrating study is to give an authentic picture of the working of the Soviet system, to discover the mechanism of the socialist collective and its impact upon the individual and his values and beliefs.

The reader of this provacative, grim, and deeply disturbing book will not be able to accept the Communist challenge lightly. He will realize that we are facing more than just military power and a few fanatically dedicated men who want to force Communism upon the Western World. Mr. Novak's book is a timely and significant warning to all of those who oversimplify, who are asleep or who are confused - and many of us fall into one of these categories.