Russian Culture / / Margaret Mead.

• VerfasserIn: Mead, Margaret,
• MitwirkendeR: Arutiunov, Sergei,; Claus, E.,; Gorer, Geoffrey,; Gorrer, Geoffrey,; Haimson, L. H.,; Leites, Nathan,; Mead, Margaret,; Rickman, John,; Rodnick, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society. They were influential both for several generations of anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies, they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as for their accurate characterizations of Russian life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PENETRATING VIEWS OF RUSSIAN CULTURE -- THE PEOPLE OF GREAT RUSSIA -- THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GREAT RUSSIANS -- APPENDICES -- SOVIET ATTITUDES TOWARDS AUTHORITY -- Appendix -- Appendix A ABSTRACT OF RESEARCH ON LEADERSHIP IN SOVIET AGRICULTURE AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY -- Appendix B SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS OF RESEARCH ON SOVIET CHILD TRAINING IDEALS AND THEIR POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE (Conducted as part of Studies in Soviet Culture) -- Appendix C SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS OF RESEARCH ON PARTY AND NON-PARTY ORGANIZATIONS IN SOVIET INDUSTRY -- Appendix D SOURCE MATERIALS USED BY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE RESEARCH GROUP -- Appendix E EXCERPT CONCERNING THE COMMUNIST “ELECTION OF MAY, 1948, IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA”– TAKEN FROM CHAPTER XVI OF UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT “CZECHS, SLOVAKS, AND COMMUNISM” -- Appendix F “TO AID THE AGITATOR,” FROM PRAVDA, MAY 27, 1948 -- Appendix G “YOUR STRENGTH” -- INDEX