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Soviet Society and the Communist Party
Soviet Society and the Communist Party
Edited by Karl W. Ryavec
University of Massachusetts Press, 1978, 256 pp
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Individual scholars address the question of how the role of the Party has been adapted to the process of economic and social change. The volume's value lies less in an overall argument, real or contrived, than in the competent way each author ploughs his own terrain.

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