Description: Many things make up a modern society: its history, culture, natural setting, wealth, classes, and peoples
Brief description:
George Fischer, author and editor of this volume, taught sociology at Columbia University. His books include Soviet Opposition to Stalin, Science and Politics, andAmerican Research on Soviet Society.
Review Quotes:
"Professor Fischer's monograph, published under the auspices of the Bureau of Applied Social Research and the Russian Institute of Columbia University, constitutes a detailed analysis of biographical data concerning higher full-time officials of the Communist party of the Soviet Union.... Fischer's work can be highly recommended as constituting a very careful, imaginative, and informative treatment of his narrow subject."
--David Granick, Political Science Quarterly
"This is a carefully documented sociological study of 306 top Soviet executives. It provides a framework for George Fischer to outline the structure--and prognosticate the future--of Soviet society."
--Alex Simirenko, American Sociological Review