The Soviet Volunteers Modernization and Bureaucracy in Public Mass Organization |
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Author:
| Odom, William E. |
Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-64578-0 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $172.00 |
Book Description:
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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
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