Suchergebnisse

WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF SOVIET ENERGY PROBLEMS FOR SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS? AMERICAN MINDS UNDERSTANDABLY LEAPT FIRST TO THE PERSIAN GULF. THE AIM OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO APPLY THIS AND OTHER QUESTIONS TO A REGION THAT HAS BEEN FOR 35 YEARS ONE OF THE CENTRAL CONCERNS IN SOVIETAMERICAN RELATIONS, EASTERN EUROPE.

Gorbachev's proposals for the "democratization" of the Soviet electoral system. Practices in Poland and Hungary.

Stavrou reviews 'The Legacy of the Soviet Bloc' edited by Jane Shapiro Zacek and Ilpyong J. Kim.

Based on papers presented at the McMaster Conference on Slavic Nationalism, held at the McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Oct. 17-18, 1986. Retrospective of modern nationalism, with the focus on the 20th century; 8 articles. Contents are grouped under the headings: Language and literature; Politics, economics, and ethnic problems.

Despite the opposition that presumably exists between empirical & authoritarian thinking, there has been in recent yrs some development of soc sci res, including PO surveys, in the USSR, & a striking development of it in Poland. The Polish work shows internal evidence of honest reporting & a genuinely empirical spirit. The Russian work, however, exemplified by 9 recent PO surveys by Komsomolskaya Pravda, is marred by an apparent obliviousness to the self-selection bias in mail surveys, & a complete ignoring of the problem of response bias, which in an authoritarian society might be expected to be acute. Frankness cannot be taken for granted. The generally practical, instrumental character of Communist res raises a question as to whether it may merely make totalitarism a more efficient & formidable enemy. But there are grounds for hope in the thought that an invigoration of the empirical spirit may in the long run tend to erode the mythological elements in Communism. AA.