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...only under the Soviet government that Russia has become a grudging source of information, Fainsod asserts. Back in the days of the Czars, Russian censorship was tight, tighter in fact than during the early thirties...
...subject matter of this investigation is divided into three main areas, though all research is supposed to cut across department lines. The first project, under the direction of Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, is the Communist Party, past and present. The second is a survey of all sides of the Soviet economy, conducted by Alexander Gerschenkron, associate professor of Economics. The third study is a sort of amorphous lump, entitled Psychology and Social Life, which, along with several "miscellaneous projects" takes up everything except politics and economy...
...Fainsod's main worry in his work is the difficulty of getting information on the contemporary status of the Russian Communist Party. He gets official government documents and party journals direct from the Soviet Union, and these constitute the bulk of his working material. In addition, several workers in his general field have access to U. S. government information on Russia...
...Fainsod also found that the continuing demand of sacrifices from the Soviet people is breeding dissatisfactions. To cope with these tensions the Communist regime resorts to repressive police controls, indoctrination, and scapegoats...
Emerson, Chairman of the Department, last week took an absence because of a stomach ailment. Since the date of his return is uncertain, Merie Fainsod, professor of Government, has assumed acting chairmanship. Emerson's International Organization course (Gov. 170) has been taken over by Inis L. Claude, Jr., to be assisted by Daniel S. Cheever, assistant professor of Government, and A. Burr Overstrout, visiting lecturer...