Censors' Choice

Some highlights from the proscribed list:

A Cartoon History of United States Foreign Policy, 1776-1976 by the editors of the Foreign Policy Association (Morrow; $4.95). Including Low's classic of Hitler and Stalin bowing to each other: "The scum of the earth, I believe"; "The bloody assassin of the workers, I presume?"

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin by Vladimir Voinovich (Bantam; $2.25). A Soviet Catch-22.

The Face of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest (Pantheon; $3.95). A series of portraits condemned as too soft on the Fuehrer.

Best Editorial Cartoons series edited by Charles Brooks (Pelican; $4.95). Pen-and-ink parodies of foreign leaders, including Brezhnev.

Baryshnikov at Work by Mikhail Baryshnikov (Knopf; $11.95). The Russian dancer's apolitical descriptions of the roles he has played. It should be read in conjunction with To Dance: The Autobiography of Valery Panov (Knopf; $15), another refugee who knew when to jump.

Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva (Harper & Row; $10). A chilling testimony from Stalin's daughter.

People's China edited by David and Nancy Milton (Random House; $3.95). Marxism in the mysterious East.

The American Image of Russia, 1917-1977 edited by Benson L. Grayson (Ungar; $14.50). "Liberty is precious," wrote Vladimir Lenin. "So precious that it must be rationed." The statement is illustrated by the book and the fair.

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