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The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in Public Mass Organization
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
The Soviet Volunteers: Modernization and Bureaucracy in Public Mass Organization
Contributors:
By (Author) William E. Odom
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Theory of warfare and military science
Military history
Dewey:
355.2
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
378
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
680g
Description
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 pl
