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Societal Manipulation in a Multiethnic Polity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 July 2011
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The chill that descended on innovative Soviet belletristic literature (and some kinds of historiography) in the post-Khrushchev era has had, as far as the outsider can determine, relatively little effect on social science publication. To avoid misunderstanding, I should hasten to add that social science has always been restricted in the U.S.S.R., on the whole more seriously than belles lettres and history. Whether for this or other reasons, the bulk of what passes for social science among Soviet publications is dreary. Even outstanding social scientists such as Iurii Arutiunian are censured occasionally. In chronological perspective, however, the best work in social science has, I think, shown a continuous evolution since the Stalinist era.
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1 There are excellent bibliographies and guides for the Sovietologist pursuing research concentrating on the U.S.S.R. For the non-Sovietologist interested in a field clearly defined in a rather conventional way, Absees (Soviet and East European Abstracts Series, Glasgow, 1970-, quarterly) provides good, brief resumes of many books and articles from the U.S.S.R. The unequaled translation service of the Current Digest of the Soviet Press (Columbus, Ohio, 1949–Google Scholar, weekly), with its outstanding indexes, tells the specialist where to turn in the daily and periodical press. For the scholar with interests cutting across conventional boundaries (I believe this applies especially to political scientists engaged in the kind of comparative study described below) these guides, while useful, are unlikely to point the way to the small but significant number of book-length studies in Russian which are most apt to engage his concentrated and prolonged attention—as contrasted to works, long and short, which merely provide a bit of factual documentation. Unfortunately, the leading English-language professional journals in political science and international affairs have not done much to remedy this neglect. In contrast, for example, to the American Historical Review, which provides reasonably comprehensive reviews of the major Soviet historiography, commentary on Russian-language materials in the political science journals has been haphazard at best.
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