ACLS Humanities E-Book: The Soviet volunteers: modernization and bureaucracy in a public mass organization

The Soviet volunteers: modernization and bureaucracy in a public mass organization

Odom, William E.

Year: c1973.

Publisher: Princeton University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Charts

Preface

Glossary

Introduction

Part One: The Origins of Osoaviakhim

I. The Doctrinal Heritage

II. Bolshevik Perceptions of Cultural Backwardness

III. Implications of Technological Backwardness

IV. The Red Army as an Instrument of Social Transformation

V. Resource Constraints and the State Budget

VI. Osoaviakhim's Predecessors

Part Two: Formal Structure

VII. General Terminology and Concepts

VIII. The Hierarchy of Societies

IX. Linkages with Other Organizations

Part Three: Osoaviakhim as an Economy

X. Resources - Organizational Inputs

XI. The Organizational Process

Part Four: Osoaviakhim as a Bureaucracy

XII. A Brief Historical Sketch

XIII. Goals and Program Development

XIV. Development of the Formal Hierarchy

XV. Bureaucracy: Rational Structure or Political Arena?

XVI. Power Relations in Osoaviakhim

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

The Soviet volunteers : modernization and bureaucracy in a public mass organization by William E. Odom.

Author:

Odom, William E

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The Soviet volunteers : modernization and bureaucracy in a public mass organization by William E. Odom.
Odom, William E
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1973.

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Subject Headings:

• Soi͡uz obshchestv druzeĭ oborony i aviat͡sionno-khimicheskogo stroitelʹstva SSSR
• Obshchestvo druzel oborony i aviat︠s︠ionno-khimicheskogo stroitel'stva RSFSR

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