Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...within a certain area of Soviet life. Although the Center believes in what the socal relation people call interdisciplinary "cross-fertilization," it does not seek to accomplish this through collaboration or group projects. As Kluckhohn observed in the foreword to Joseph S. Berliner's Factory and Manager in the USSR (No. 27 in the Russian Research Center series), the Center thinks that such an inter-disciplinary approach is most successful when it takes place "under one skull...
Tucker, who for nine years was an attache of the United States embassy in Moscow and who toured the USSR last year with Adlai Stevenson, spoke on "Education and the Soviet Society" at the second Thursday lecture...
Tucker explained that the Kremlin is in the process of working out a plan to reorganize the educational system. The plan is outlined in a law passed last December, entitled "On the Strength of the Connection of School and Life in the USSR." Tucker said that the word "life" refers to the life of material production...
Since the United States had an effective margin of atomic power for several years after the formation of NATO, it is difficult to attribute the actual deterrent effect of the Alliance. The limits of Soviet power have, however, been stable since 1948; indeed the Yugoslavian break with the USSR represents a shaky but tangible Western gain...
...most important of these research institutions, Guber said, is the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union at Moscow. There are several other research centers in the USSR, he said; but where a locality has none there is often a field house or a division of the Moscow center...