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8.Informal Adjustive Mechanisms

From the book How the Soviet System Works

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674188099.c11
From the book
How the Soviet System Works
How the Soviet System Works

Chapters in this book (31)

Frontmatter
Acknowledgments
Contents
Part I. Introductory
1.The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, and Its Data
Part II. Operating characteristics of the soviet system
2.A Brief Review of the Formal Characteristics of the System
3.Creating and Maintaining Myths
4.Planning and Controlling
5.Problem Solving, the Overcommitment of Resources, and "Storming"
6.Refusal to Allow Independent Concentrations of Power
7. Terror and Forced Labor
8.Informal Adjustive Mechanisms
9.Rigidity-Flexibility
10.Caution at Major Risks in Foreign Affairs
Part III. The individual in soviet society
11.Soviet Policy Toward the Individual
12.Sources of Satisfaction and Dissatisfaction
13.Attitudes Toward the Soviet System
14.Attitudes Toward the West
15.Some Aspects of Russian National Character
16.Political Loyalty of Individuals
Part IV. Social and psychological characteristics of specific groups
17.The Ruling Elite
18.The Intelligentsia
19.The Peasants
20.The Workers
21.Generational Differences
22.Nationality Groups
Part V. Conclusions
23.Summary
24.Some Evaluations by the Authors
25.Some Forecasts by the Authors
Appendix. Reports and Publications of the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System
References
Index
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