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How the Soviet System Works : Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes / Raymond A. Bauer, Clyde Kluckhohn, Alex Inkeles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Russian Research Center Studies ; 24Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1956Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674188075
  • 9780674188099
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 947.085
LOC classification:
  • DK266
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I. Introductory -- 1.The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, and Its Data -- Part II. Operating characteristics of the soviet system -- 2.A Brief Review of the Formal Characteristics of the System -- 3.Creating and Maintaining Myths -- 4.Planning and Controlling -- 5.Problem Solving, the Overcommitment of Resources, and "Storming" -- 6.Refusal to Allow Independent Concentrations of Power -- 7. Terror and Forced Labor -- 8.Informal Adjustive Mechanisms -- 9.Rigidity-Flexibility -- 10.Caution at Major Risks in Foreign Affairs -- Part III. The individual in soviet society -- 11.Soviet Policy Toward the Individual -- 12.Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction -- 13.Attitudes Toward the Soviet System -- 14.Attitudes Toward the West -- 15.Some Aspects of Russian National Character -- 16.Political Loyalty of Individuals -- Part IV. Social and psychological characteristics of specific groups -- 17.The Ruling Elite -- 18.The Intelligentsia -- 19.The Peasants -- 20.The Workers -- 21.Generational Differences -- 22.Nationality Groups -- Part V. Conclusions -- 23.Summary -- 24.Some Evaluations by the Authors -- 25.Some Forecasts by the Authors -- Appendix. Reports and Publications of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System -- References -- Index
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I. Introductory -- 1.The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, and Its Data -- Part II. Operating characteristics of the soviet system -- 2.A Brief Review of the Formal Characteristics of the System -- 3.Creating and Maintaining Myths -- 4.Planning and Controlling -- 5.Problem Solving, the Overcommitment of Resources, and "Storming" -- 6.Refusal to Allow Independent Concentrations of Power -- 7. Terror and Forced Labor -- 8.Informal Adjustive Mechanisms -- 9.Rigidity-Flexibility -- 10.Caution at Major Risks in Foreign Affairs -- Part III. The individual in soviet society -- 11.Soviet Policy Toward the Individual -- 12.Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction -- 13.Attitudes Toward the Soviet System -- 14.Attitudes Toward the West -- 15.Some Aspects of Russian National Character -- 16.Political Loyalty of Individuals -- Part IV. Social and psychological characteristics of specific groups -- 17.The Ruling Elite -- 18.The Intelligentsia -- 19.The Peasants -- 20.The Workers -- 21.Generational Differences -- 22.Nationality Groups -- Part V. Conclusions -- 23.Summary -- 24.Some Evaluations by the Authors -- 25.Some Forecasts by the Authors -- Appendix. Reports and Publications of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System -- References -- Index

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