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Traditional, Market, and Organizational Societies and the USSR

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

T. H. Rigby
T. H. Rigby
Affiliation:
Australian National University
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Extract

This article represents an attempt to describe Soviet society, and JL particularly the Soviet political system, in terms of a typology of society based on modes of coordinating social activity. It is felt that this approach may be of value in pointing up both some of the similarities and some of the differences between Communist and non-Communist industrialized societies.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , July 1964 , pp. 539 - 557
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1964

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1 The conceptual framework employed here was suggested in the course of a critical study of Max Weber's typology of society based on forms of domination (Herrschaji), which will be reported elsewhere. An earlier version of this paper was read at a seminar on the sociology of power held at the Australian National University. Many matters touched on in the following pages involve thorny issues of historical interpretation, which must await examination in a more extended exposition of the writer's views, but it was felt that a general outline of the latter might be of some value at the present stage.

2 See Schapiro, Leonard, The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (New York 1960), 242ff.Google Scholar

3 See Meyer, Alfred G., “USSR, Incorporated,” Slavic Review, XX (October 1961), 369–76.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Casinelli, C. W., “The Totalitarian Party,” Journal of Politics, XXIV (February 1962), 111–41.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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7 The writer has considered this question at greater length elsewhere. See Rigby, T. H., “Crypto-Politics,” Survey, No. 50 (January 1964), 188–91.Google Scholar