The Soviet literature on Automatic Translation is surveyed with the objective of acquainting English-speaking workers in the field with sources of information about relevant Soviet work. The survey is complemented by a bibliography, which we believe to be comprehensive. Limited machine facilities appear to have restricted the range of concrete accomplishment, but much of the theoretical work is...

Professor of Physics, Institute for Physical Problems, USSR Academy of Sciences and Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, working on the development and uses of electron accelerators; Vice Chairman, Committee of Soviet Scientists for Peace against the Nuclear Threat. Dr. Kapitza is a member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences and moderator of a Soviet television program on science and soci...

Two years ago the writer found plenty of evidence. Red flags, censored newspapers, directed excursions, indoctrinated schools, motivated plays, didactic pictures, and continuous radio messages preach communism. Appeals to the need for security and class loyalty, dogmatic assertion of Marxian philosophy, the example of leaders, and calls to participation are used as incentives to action. The res...

This book is a commercial reprint in England of a study originally published in the United States in 1951 by the Rand Corporation?a research organisation whose Social Sciences Division at that time supported several projects concerned with Soviet behaviour and resources. Among them was the one here reported on, of which Dr. Mead was the director, assisted by an inter-disciplinary team. Its purp...

The relation between experimental work in perception in the Soviet Union and the orthodox philosophy of the Soviet state is discussed. It is pointed out that both the philosophy derived from Lenin and Marx and the needs of the state exert an influence on the nature of the problems studied and the type of theory developed. Studies in the areas of tactual, auditory, and visual perception are revi...

This paper reviews the development of early Soviet drug treatment approaches by focusing on the struggle for disciplinary power between leading social and mental hygienists and clinical psychiatrists as a defining moment for Soviet drug treatment speciality that became known as "narcology." From this vantage point, I engage in the examination of the rise and fall of various treatment methods an...

In this study we analyze transitions to first marriage in Kyrgyzstan – one of the post-Soviet states of Central Asia. We use retrospective survey data collected in 2011/12 that contain full partnership histories of a representative sample of men and women in that country. We estimate hazard regression models to examine competing risks of arranged and non-arranged marriage among Kyrgyz and Uzbek...

Problems of Post-Communism, vol. 58, nos. 4–5, July–August/September–October 2011, pp. 35–45. © 2011 M.E. Sharpe, Inc. All rights reserved. ISSN 1075–8216 / 2011 $9.50 + 0.00. DOI 10.2753/PPC1075-8216580403 Mark r. Beissinger is professor of politics and acting director of the Princeton institute for international and regional studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Nationalist Mob...

The two states that emerged from the defeated Germany were central to the development of the cold war. Rapidly evolving from defeated objects of Four Power policy, the two Germanys became important actors in their own right on the front line of the cold war. Both superpowers initially treated their part of Germany as war booty to be plundered and kept weak, but as the cold war developed, they w...