Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...only under the Soviet government that Russia has become a grudging source of information, Fainsod asserts. Back in the days of the Czars, Russian censorship was tight, tighter in fact than during the early thirties...
Fainsod's main worry in his work is the difficulty of getting information on the contemporary status of the Russian Communist Party. He gets official government documents and party journals direct from the Soviet Union, and these constitute the bulk of his working material. In addition, several workers in his general field have access to U. S. government information on Russia...
...analyzing the Soviet economy, Professor Gerschenkron has the problem both of getting material and then translating it into American terms. This second stop is necessary, he states, because while the Russians have not been known actually to falsify statistics, their production comparisons are often distorted by significant omissions...
...life of the Russian people, is in many ways the most novel, because "the fields of anthropology, psychology, and sociology have hitherto play little part in Russian studies." There is no specific outline for the study, and this looseness reflects the difficulty of applying usual research methods to the Soviet Union...
Among the most important work in this section is Raymond A. Bauer's study of "the conception of man in Soviet psychology." This is expected to shed light on the Russian government's official view of the nature...