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Report on Sociology in Soviet Ukraine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alex Simirenko
Alex Simirenko*
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The Pennsylvania State University
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It is often said that Western study of Soviet society is comparable to observing the tip of an iceberg. This analogy is not entirely appropriate since it ignores acts of deliberate camouflage and misinformation. This leads to a certain paradox. Although the greatest amount of available information covers the top of the iceberg, meaning Moscow, it also contains the greatest amount of deliberate misinformation. Information on areas such as Ukraine, however, is in shorter supply but at the same time it provides a more accurate picture, even if this picture is not an entirely clear one. This view suggests that sociology in Ukraine may reflect more accurately the state of sociology throughout the Soviet Union, even if it portrays a somewhat different picture than that generated by the Institute of Sociological Research in Moscow.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , Fall 1977 , pp. 202 - 208
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Copyright © 1976 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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