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A Profile of the Field of Soviet Politics, or Who Will Study Stalin's Successors?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2022

Jonathan R. Adelman*
Affiliation:
University of Denver

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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1983

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