Author:
Joint Committee on Slavic Studies.
Imprint:Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1960.
Descriptionvii, 695 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:"Papers...originally presented at a conference held at Arden House, in Harriman, New York, on April 25-27, 1958, under the auspices of the joint Committee on Slavic Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council."
Note:Some principal characteristics of industrial societies / Talcott Parsons -- Problems and patterns of Russian economic development / Alexander Gerschenkron -- Population changes / Warren W. Eason -- Patterns of autocracy / Zbigniew K. Brzezinski -- Parties and the state: the evolution of political attitudes / Leopold H. Haimson -- Courts and the legal system / John N. Hazard -- Political police: the dream of a beautiful autocracy / Sidney Monas -- State and the local community / Alexander Vucinich -- State and the economy / Theodore H. Von Laue -- Social classes and political structure / Robert A. Feldmesser -- Intelligentsia and Russia / George Fischer -- Civil service: its composition and status / Alf Edeen -- Russian peasant: from emancipation to Kolkhoz / Lazar Volin -- Russian urban worker: from serf to proletarian / Jerzy G. Gliksman -- Military as a social force / Raymond L. Garthoff -- Social stratification in the modernization of Russia / Alex Inkeles -- Education: organization and values since 1917 / George Z. F. Bereday -- Literary and historical scholarship / Herbert E. Bowman -- Scholarship in the natural sciences / Nicholas Dewitt -- Church and state / John S. Curtiss -- Inner life of the Russian orthodox church / Nicholas S. Timasheff -- Summary and review / Sidney Harcave -- Family and social change / Kent Geiger -- Strong-woman motif / Vera Sandomirsky Dunham -- Youth organizations and the adjustment of Soviet adolescents / Allen Kassof -- Changing attitudes of Russian youth / Klaus Mehnert -- Organization of welfare services / Bernice Madison -- Medical organizations and the medical profession / Mark G. Field -- Russian ethnic values / John S. Reshetar, Jr. -- Some Russian images of the West / Frederick C. Barghoorn -- Image of dual Russia / Robert C. Tucker -- Changing attitudes toward the individual / George L. Kline -- Soviet model of the ideal youth / Ralph T. Fisher, Jr. -- Some notes on the Russian national character / Henry V. Dicks -- Modernization of Russian society / Cyril E. Black.
Bibliography Note:Bibliographical footnotes and index.
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