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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...
...censorship and secret police, Stalin does not have to worry about "public opinion" in the Western political sense. But morale matters, because it has an effect on how hard the people work, how ready they are to fight, how willingly they submit to the rule of Russia's dictatorship...
...combat this concept our best weapon should be to give all possible aid and reassurance to all people under the yoke of Communist dictatorship, especially the Russian people themselves, Kerensky maintained...
Guerard's war is fought in a small nameless country on the Continent, between the sullen, deteriorating armies of Western Allies and a "dictatorship." He tells most of his story through the narrative of an intelligence sergeant, sent up from a rear area for propaganda work in the small country, the sergeant's home. The sergeant strains to find some sense in the war's contradictory orders, its faked broadcasts, its leaflets and rumors. Eventually he crosses the enemy lines to the city of his birth and tries to start life ever again as a workman. A rumored germ-warfare...