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There is no doubt that millions of Russians hate Stalin's regime, but it seems to be a weary, passive hate. Harvard's Dr. Merle Fainsod recently published a study of careful interviews with some 100 Soviet citizens who had deserted their country and fled into Western Germany. Besides the usual story of slowly mounting dislike for the party bullyboys who run the collective farms and the factories, Fainsod found signs of weakness in the Soviet Union's heralded nationality policy (which promises, on paper, complete equality for national minorities). He found that the younger intellectuals among...
...Government 1 committee also cut very deeply into the possibility of revising its course, but, as yet, nothing has come of it. The committee was originally composed of Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, William Y. Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, John W. Gaus, professor of Government, Arthur M. Holcombe '06, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, and Robert G. McCloskey, assistant professor of Government...
Harvard students will find such familiar courses as "Dictatorship and the Government and Politics of the Soviet Union," given by Merle Fainsod, professor of government. They will also find that Summer School, educationally speaking, is a good...
...first section of courses, Theory, is the smallest. Beer gives 112 and 113, Parliamentary and Comparative Government, respectively, with increasing authority but with notable variations in degree of interest. Fainsod's Know Your Enemy 1 (Gov. 115: Dictatorship and the Government and Politics of the Soviet Union) has been a great box office success since the Cold War began. Topping off the group is Friedrich's weighty 106, which "traces the development of political thought and jurisprudence from Greek and Jewish antiquity . . . to the nineteenth century and relates it to cultural and institutional growth." This course is open only...
...charge of the Center, directly responsible to provost Buck and acting as the final judge of what research is to be undertaken. Talcott parsons, professor of Sociology, Edward S. Mason, dean of the School of Public Administration, Donald C. McKay, chairman of the Committee on International and Regional Studies, Fainsod, Gerschenkron, Michael Karpovich, chairman of the Department of Slavic Languages, and Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics, sit with Kluckhohn on this group...