The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in Public Mass Organization

by William E. Odom

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Founded in 1927, the Society of Friends of Defense and Aviation- Chemical Construction, or "Osoaviakhim," became the largest mass voluntary association in the Soviet Union before World War II. Conceived in Bolshevik rhetoric about the creativity of the toiling masses, this novel organizational scheme gradually acquired bureaucratic substance and played a significant role in making the civilian masses administratively accessible for elementary programs...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691087180

ISBN13:9780691087184

Release Date:January 1974

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:378 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

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