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USSR, Incorporated

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Extract

To summarize the nature of an entire social system in one brief article is a truly forbidding task; but to criticize such an effort is equally difficult. There is much in Zbigniew Brzezinski's essay with which I agree; and for the article as a whole I am inclined to express admiration. There are some statements with which I do not agree, some that I would express differently, and some things which I think are essential enough to have been added. In order to make it easier for me to state my views systematically, I propose to begin by indicating how I would have written an outline sketch of the Soviet social system. We shall then see where major disagreements or shifts of emphasis are located.

Type
Discussion
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1961

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References

1 The conflicts between a Suslov and a Malenkov might be rather similar to the disagreements between a Senator Goldwater and a Governor Rockefeller.

2 See Frank, Andrew Gunder, “The Organization of Economic Activity in the Soviet Union,” in Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, LXXVIII, No. 1 (1957), 10456.Google Scholar Frank's article draws heavily on the works of Granick and Berliner.