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The ambitious young Soviet must also be careful to choose the right profession. Engineers, once revered as the guardians of Soviet technological might, now glut the market. Nuclear physics remains one of the most respected and best-compensated fields. Journalism is another sought-after career; top Soviet reporters can boost...
The politicization of psychiatry has in fact produced a kind of schizophrenia of the profession itself. As Bukovsky points out: "It is not easy for the ordinary person to get admitted for treatment in a psychiatric hospital. For a political case, though, it is very easy. They are taken to...
Still, Soviet women are second-class comrades. Top jobs have a way of going to men. In medicine, a profession with much less prestige in the Soviet Union than in the West, virtually all the elite surgeons and administrators are male. Mathematics and the sciences are masculine preserves. Though a...
One result has been a heavy demand for attorneys. The number of law schools has risen from 36 to 50 since 1970, and an unprecedented measure of prestige is accruing to the profession. Some observers have even suggested something that Marx, Lenin or Stalin would have found unthinkable: in 30...