Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Charts
  • Preface
  • Glossary
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Origins of Osoaviakhim
  • Chapter I. The Doctrinal Heritage
  • Chapter II. Bolshevik Perceptions of Cultural Backwardness
  • Chapter III. Implications of Technological Backwardness
  • Chapter IV. The Red Army as an Instrument of Social Transformation
  • Chapter V. Resource Constraints and the State Budget
  • Chapter VI. Osoaviakhim's Predecessors
  • Part II. Formal Structure
  • Chapter VII. General Terminology and Concepts
  • Chapter VIII. The Hierarchy of Societies
  • Chapter IX. Linkages with Other Organizations
  • Part III. Osoaviakhim as an Economy
  • Chapter X. Resources-Organizational Inputs
  • Chapter XI. The Organizational Process
  • Part IV. Osoaviakhim as a Bureaucracy
  • Chapter XII. A Brief Historical Sketch
  • Chapter XIII. Goals and Program Development
  • Chapter XIV. Development of the Formal Hierarchy
  • Chapter XV. Bureaucracy: Rational Structure or Political Arena?
  • Chapter XVI. Power Relations in Osoaviakhim
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index