The cold war and the modal philosophy

Abstract

The chief landmark in the study of public opinion in the Communist world is the big Harvard study of Soviet defectors and nonreturners, recently summarized by Bauer, Inkeles, and Kluckhohn (2). There are also more recent quantitative studies, still unpublished, that have brought up to date the findings of the Harvard study with regard to public opinion in the Soviet Union. For the satellite countries the chief quantitative study consists of interviews with a representative sample of the great stream of refugees that came out of Hungary after the 1956 uprising (4). And for much of the Communist world there is a considerable