Soviet Potentials: A Geographic Appraisal

Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA): Challenges, Potentials and Paradigm*

Much of the spread of participatory rural appraisal (PRA) as an emerging family of approaches and methods has been lateral, South-South, through experiential learning and changes in behavior, with different local applications. Rapid spread has made quality assurance a concern, with dangers from “instant fashion”, rushing, formalism and ruts. Promising potentials include farmers’ own farming sys...

Notes of a Soviet Doctor

This is a fascinating book and (as said in Professor Mamamtavrischvili's Foreword) it provides the answers to many troubling questions of vital importance asked by young doctors and students in Russia. It certainly needs reading by anyone studying the influences which mould their professional standards. Dr. Iago Galdston suggests in his introduction that Dr. Pondoev has three personalities?a br...

Notes of a Soviet Doctor

insurance in this country. True, we have a great quantity of voluntary health insurance, but quantity and effectiveness are not synonymous. By dichotomizing the challenge and allowing only the alternative of sound medical practice, which preserves the physician-patient relationship, or socialism, Dr. Page permits himself to conclude that, " . . . the only practicable scheme that will relieve pe...

Soviet Science

Ten years ago Dr. Belding brought out the first edition of this text and in the present volume follows the original plan of presenting "the protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites of man, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the diseases they produce." Although more material has been compressed into each page and thinner paper permits a convenient reduction in its thickness, t...

Religious Culture: Faith in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia