The Soviet Volunteers : : Modernization and Bureaucracy in Public Mass Organization / / William E. Odom.
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 organizati...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1974 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Charts
- Preface
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I. The Origins of Osoaviakhim
- Chapter I. The Doctrinal Heritage
- Chapter II. Bolshevik Perceptions of Cultural Backwardness
- Chapter III. Implications of Technological Backwardness
- Chapter IV. The Red Army as an Instrument of Social Transformation
- Chapter V. Resource Constraints and the State Budget
- Chapter VI. Osoaviakhim's Predecessors
- Part II. Formal Structure
- Chapter VII. General Terminology and Concepts
- Chapter VIII. The Hierarchy of Societies
- Chapter IX. Linkages with Other Organizations
- Part III. Osoaviakhim as an Economy
- Chapter X. Resources-Organizational Inputs
- Chapter XI. The Organizational Process
- Part IV. Osoaviakhim as a Bureaucracy
- Chapter XII. A Brief Historical Sketch
- Chapter XIII. Goals and Program Development
- Chapter XIV. Development of the Formal Hierarchy
- Chapter XV. Bureaucracy: Rational Structure or Political Arena?
- Chapter XVI. Power Relations in Osoaviakhim
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index