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Observations on Bureaucracy, Totalitarianism, and the Comparative Study of Communism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Paul Hollander
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Abstract

Editor’s Note: In his covering letter for the following piece Mr. Hollander remarked that “sociologists rarely make themselves heard on the pages of the Slavic Review” and expressed the hope that other readers will also be “inclined to join the debate.” We should like to take the opportunity thus provided to invite all sociologists to raise their voices in our pages. We also join the author in his hope that others will enter the debate.

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Slavic Review , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , June 1967 , pp. 302 - 307
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1967

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References

1 As set forth in Alfred G. Meyer, “USSR, Incorporated,” in Treadgold, Donald W., ed., The Development of the USSR : An Exchange of Views (Seattle, 1964)Google Scholar; and Meyer, , The Soviet Political System : An Interpretation (New York [1965]).Google Scholar

2 See Alex Inkeles, “Models in the Analysis of Soviet Society,” Survey, July 1966.

3 Allen Kassof elucidated very clearly the distinctive qualities and consequences of totalitarian coercion in the post-Stalin period in his article “The Administered Society : Totalitarianism without Terror,” World Politics, July 1964; see also Herbert Ritvo, “Totalitarianism without Coercion?” in A. Brumberg, ed., Russia under Khrushchev (New York, 1962).

4 See Ezra Vogel, “Politicized Bureaucracy : Communist China,” and Paul Hollander

5 Meyer, “The Comparative Study of Communist Polidcal Systems,” Slavic Review, March 1967, p. 11.

6 Reinhard, Bendix, Nationbuilding and Citizenship (New York, 1964), esp. pp. 299–301 and 6-15Google Scholar; Moore, Wilbert E., The Impact of Industry (Englewood Cliffs, 1965), esp. pp. 10-19Google Scholar; see also Stanislav Andreski, “Old and New Elements in Totalitarianism,” “Factors of Liberalizadon,” and “Communism and Capitalism : Are They Converging,” in The Uses of Comparative Sociology (Berkeley, 1965).