Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past three or four years, the flow of information from the Soviet Union to the West has be- come much easier in many respects...
...only exception to this rule against team projects was the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, a large undertaking leading to three books so far--How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes, by Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles and Clyde Kluckhohn, the Berliner volume, and Mark G. Field's Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia--and numerous articles. In this study, carried on in co-operation with the United States Air Force, a team of twenty interviewers spent nearly a year in Munich collecting material from former Soviet citizens who had fled the U.S.S.R. The results...
...writing of this book and the other work of the Center. From the funds available, the Executive Committee (appointed by the Corporation) can allocate money for individual research projects submitted by scholars both inside and outside the University. The Committee does not seek to plug gaps in Soviet research systematically but merely accepts the most worthwhile projects that are suggested...
...meet specific needs but are scheduled as interesting topics and speakers become available. Sessions within a given year may include Joseph Korbel on The Weimar Republic documents, Michael Petrovics on Historical Writing in Communist Yugoslavia, E.H. Carr on Classes and Party under NEP, Mark Slonim on Recent Developments in Soviet Literature, and a panel discussion on recent trips to the Soviet Union. The field which the Center covers, properly speaking, is immense: the staff tries simply to center local activity, and not to co-ordinate it under any general plan. The most recent seminar was led Monday by Isaac Deutscher...
...American scholars could obtain the compilations of Ministerial decrees. This access was cut off in Stalin's tightening up of 1949 and 1950, and has not yet been restored, although individual decrees are now available. Since about 1956, there has been a "greater flow of materials" from the Soviet Union to the West, Fainsod says. But very often, however, the key documents come through fortuitous accidents, like the Smolensk archives Fainsod used for his Smolensk under Soviet Rule. These documents were captured intact by Nazi forces invading the U.S.S.R. during the Second World...