Soviet Administration Research Articles

Turnover and “Family Circles” in Soviet Administration

Students of the Soviet political system have frequently noted the high turnover rates and the short terms of office of middle and lower ranking Soviet party and governmental officials. Soviet leaders have striven to combat the formation of informal structures within the party and governmental bureaucracies which, if allowed to go unchecked, could erode the control of the central political leadership.

Social Interests and the Competence of Administrative Organs

A complex system of interests may be seen in socialist society. (1) With respect to the subject matter of this article, they may be classified as the interests of the country as a whole; the individual republics and territorial administrative units; branches of the economy, economic agencies and enterprises; and personal interests. Moreover, each of these may be comprised of long-range and immediate interests. Socialist property, the fact that state power is in the hands of the working people, and the leadership role played by the Communist Party create the foundation for a harmonious combining of diverse interests and a profound internal unity. The system of Soviet state administration is structured to reckon with all these interests and assures that they will be harmonized in a manner best facilitating the further forward development of society.(2)

The Organs of Soviet Administration of Justice: Their History and Operation, by Samuel Kucherov

The Organs of Soviet Administration of Justice: Their History and Operation, <i>by Samuel Kucherov</i>

The Organs of Soviet Administration of Justice: Their History and Operation

The Organs of Soviet Administration of Justice: Their History and Operation

Social Science and Soviet Administrative Behavior

Few scholars have utilized contemporary social science theory in designing research on Communist countries. And fewer still have in systematically incorporated data from Communist countries into the existing body of social science theory. That is, middle-range theories such as organization, development, and socialization theory have not significantly shaped Western research on Communist systems. And surprisingly few one-, two-, and multivariable generalizations from the existing social science literature have been confirmed, rejected, or refined—even tentatively—with data from Communist countries.

A Quantitative View of Soviet Cinema

The history of Soviet cinema has been extensively described in Englishlanguage books and articles on subject by Babitsky and Rimberg, Dickinson and de la Roche, Leyda, Macdonald, and others.1 These writers have concentrated on qualitative history of motion pictures in USSR, describing work of specific major film-makers and characteristics of specific major films, studios, and administrative policies. If these studies have any limitation, it is on quantitative side-a meager and scattered presentation of statistical information on overall film production in Soviet Union year by year. Such a limitation is quite understandable, because Soviet administrators and economists for many years did not make a habit of releasing detailed statistical data on production achievements or failures. Indeed, many Soviet economic studies published in Stalin period deliberately neglected factual evidence in favor of theoretical quotations cited and interpreted from scriptures of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin-a practice sometimes referred to as quotationism. The noted Russian historian of early Soviet cinema, Lebedev, makes this kind of scattered reference to quantity of production, mentioning in one place if in 1922 number of released features and semi-features did not surpass nine titles, then in 1924 it rises to forty-two, and in another place the release of fictional, live-actor films [in] 1924/25 fiscal year [was] 70 [and in] 1930 [was] around 120 films.2 Some of Lebedev's figures, despite their approximate and apparently non-comparable nature (calendar vs. fiscal year, all genres vs. only fictional, etc.), have been taken over directly by Babitsky and Rimberg (see pp. 69, 245). And when Babitsky and Rimberg quote various sources' production statistics for 1930s, they do so with a necessary reservation: At end of Second [Five-Year] Plan decline in production was matched by a decline in publication of

The Organs of Soviet Administration of Justice: Their History and Operations

The Organs of Soviet Administration of Justice: Their History and Operations

Soviet administration and the grain crisis of 1927–28

(1968). Soviet administration and the grain crisis of 1927–28. Soviet Studies: Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 235-241.

The Relationship between Collegial and One-Man Management in Soviet State Administration at the Present Stage of Development

Under the conditions of the state of the entire people, we are witnessing an all-round improvement in the functioning of the state administrative machinery. The skill with which its organizing function is performed will largely determine the degree of success that will be attained in reaching the goals for the next decade set in the CPSU Program. The reorganization, on the party's initiative, of the system of central and local administrative agencies is making for an unmistakable rise in the economic component of the executive and administrative work of the state of the entire people. The principle of democratic volunteer activity in the organization and functioning of the government machinery is being advanced consistently. The techniques of Soviet administration are also being improved. As a consequence, considerable interest attaches to the problem of the interrelationship between collegial and one-man management techniques in the functioning of the administrative machinery. Certain aspects of this problem will be considered in this article.

Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office. By Glenn G. Morgan. (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962. Pp. x, 281 pp. $6.00.)

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Soviet Administrative Legality; the Role of the Attorney-General's Office. By Glenn G. Morgan. [Stanford: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1962. x and 281 pp. £2 8s.

Soviet Administrative Legality; the Role of the Attorney-General's Office. By Glenn G. Morgan. [Stanford: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press. 1962. x and 281 pp. £2 8s.

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John Erickson, The Soviet High Command: A Military‐Political History, 1918–1941. London, Macmillan, 1962. xv + 889 pp. 84s. Nicolas De Witt, Education and Professional Employment in the USSR. Washington, D.C. (US Government Printing Office), National Science Foundation, 1961. xxxix + 856 pp. $5.50. Marshall I. Goldman, Soviet Marketing. Free Press of Glencoe, 1963. 229 pp. 45s. Ivar Spector, The First Russian Revolution: Its Impact on Asia. Prentice Hall, 1962. 180 pp. $3.95 (cloth), $1.95 (paper). Ivan Maisky, Journey into the Past (Translated from the Russian by Frederick Holt). London, Hutchinson, 1962. 288 pp. 305. Glenn G. Morgan, Soviet Administrative Legality: The Rôle of the Attorney General's Office. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1962. London, Oxford U.P., 1962. x+281 pp. $6.00. 485.

Fundamentals of Soviet Law, Communism and the Law, La Régime de la Propriété en U.R.S.S., Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office and Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines and Social Functions

Fundamentals of Soviet Law, Communism and the Law, La Régime de la Propriété en U.R.S.S., Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office and Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines and Social Functions

Soviet Administrative Legality. The Role of the Attorney General's Office

Soviet Administrative Legality. The Role of the Attorney General's Office

Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office, by Glenn G. Morgan

Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office, <i>by Glenn G. Morgan</i>

Glenn G. Morgan, Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962. x + 281 pp. $6.00. - Kazimierz Grzybowski, Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines and Social Functions. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. xiv + 285 pp. $7.50.

Glenn G. Morgan, Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962. x + 281 pp. $6.00. - Kazimierz Grzybowski, Soviet Legal Institutions: Doctrines and Social Functions. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1962. xiv + 285 pp. $7.50. - Volume 22 Issue 3

Book Reviews: Freedom and History, The Paradoxes of Freedom, Philosophy, Politics, and Society: Second Series, The Christian in Politics, in Defence of Liberalism, Economic Philosophy, Aneurin Bevan. Volume I: 1897–1945, The Yankee Marlborough, outside the Right, Macmillan: Portrait of a Politician, The Town Clerk in English Local Government, The Factory Movement 1830–1855, Government and Industry in Britain, Trade Union Growth,

Book Reviews: Freedom and History, The Paradoxes of Freedom, Philosophy, Politics, and Society: Second Series, The Christian in Politics, in Defence of Liberalism, Economic Philosophy, Aneurin Bevan. Volume I: 1897–1945, The Yankee Marlborough, outside the Right, Macmillan: Portrait of a Politician, The Town Clerk in English Local Government, The Factory Movement 1830–1855, Government and Industry in Britain, Trade Union Growth,

Book Review: Soviet Administrative Legality

Book Review: Soviet Administrative Legality

Soviet Administrative Legality, The Role of the Attorney General's Office

Soviet Administrative Legality, The Role of the Attorney General's Office

Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office

Soviet Administrative Legality: The Role of the Attorney General's Office