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2 books match the query 'Soviet Union Eastern Europe'

cover of Dominant Powers and Subordinate States: The United States in Latin America and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe

Dominant Powers and Subordinate States

The United States in Latin America and the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe

Jan F. Triska, ed.

Duke University Press, 1986

In comparing how the two superpowers exercise their persuasive control over their respective spheres, this book presents collective evidence toward the startling conclusion that this dominance, as it has been practiced, is no longer in the national interest of either the United States or the USSR.
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Professions And The State

Expertise and Autonomy in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

edited by Anthony Jones

Temple University Press, 1991

Unlike autonomous professionals in Western industrialized democracies, professionals in a socialist, bureaucratic setting operate as employees of the state. The change in environment has important Implications not only for the practice of professions but also for the concept of professionalism itself. This collection of nine essays is the first to survey the major professions In the USSR, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The contributors investigate the implications of professional experience in a socialist economy as well as relating changes in professional organization and power to reform movements in general and perestroika in particular.


In the series Labor and Social Change, edited by Paula Rayman and Carmen Sirianni.
 

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