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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 481 pp., xiii. NAP. Following the Preface and Introduction: "Soviet Area Studies and the Social Sciences: Some Methodological Problems in Communist Studies", Contents divided into 20 Essays in three Sections: I. METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN COMMUNIST STUDIES: Introductory Note; (1) H. Gordon Skilling, "Soviet and Communist Politics: A Comparative Approach"; (2) Robert C. Tucker, "On the Comparative Study of Communism"; (3) Paul Shoup, "Comparing Communist Nations: Prospects for an Empirical Approach"; (4) D. Richard Little, "Communist Studies in a Comparative Framework: Some Unorthodox Proposals"; (5) T.H. Rigby, " Crypto-Politics"; (6) Erik P. Hoffman, "Methodological Problems of Kremlinology"; II. CONCEPTUALIZATION IN COMMUNIST STUDIES: Introductory Note, (7) Allen Kassof, "The Administered Society: Totalitarianism without Terror"; (8) T.H. Rigby, "Traditional, Market, and Organizational Societies and the U.S.S.R."; (9) "Symposium on Comparative Politics and Communist Systems" : [A] Alfred G. Meyer, "The Comparative Study of Communist Political Systems"; [B] John H. Kautsky, "Communism and the Comparative Study of Development"; [C] Dan N. Jacobs, "Area Studies and Communist Systems"; [D] Robert S. Sharlet, " Systematic Political Science and Communist Systems"; [E] John A. Armstrong, "Comparative Politics and Communist systems: Concluding Remarks"; (10) Paul Hollander, "Observations on Bureaucracy, Totalitarianism, and the Comparative Study of Communism"; (11) Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., "Toward a Reconceptualization of Political Change in the Soviet Union: The Political Leadership System"; (12) Robert S. Sharlet, "Concept Formation in Political Science and Communist Studies: Conceptualizing Political Participation"; (13) Milton Lodge, " 'Groupism' in the Post-Stalin Period'; III. SOCIAL SCIENCE THEORY AND COMMUNIST STUDIES, Introductory Note, (14) H. Gordon Skilling, "Interest Groups and Communist Politics"; (15) Joel J. Schwartz and William R. Keech, "Group Influence and the Policy Process in the Soviet Union"; (16) William A. Welsh, "Toward a Multiple-Strategy Approach to Research on Comparative Communist Political Elites: Empirical and Quantitative Problems"; (17) John A. Armstrong, "Sources of Administrative Behavior: Some Soviet and Western European Comparisons"; (18) Erik P. Hoffman, "Communication Theory and the Study of Soviet Politics"; (19) Roger W. Benjamin and John H. Kautsky, "Communism and Economic Development"; (20) William A. Welsh, "A Game-Theoretic Conceptualization of the Hungarian Revolt: Toward an Inductive Theory of Games"; Contributors, pp. 466-468; Author Index, pp. 469-473; Subject Index, pp. 474-481. Shiny brown wrappers with title lettering in red and white lettering in a column at right middle front cover, adjacent to illustration on left of a solid white abstract human profile, with a brown curvilinear outline of a basketball in the cranium of the profiled individual, with a superimposition of the traditional red hammer and cycle symbol of the Soviet Union upon that "basketball"; editor name lettering in small white letters over brown at top right front cover. 4 3/4" diagonal crease at lower right front cover (strips of clear mailing tape have been applied, leaving cover flat and as strong as if never creased: solid); rubbing wear across spine ends and thin intermittent lines down spine edges; spine slightly sunned with red lettering of editor's name slightly less intense than red applied to front cover (All lettering still sharp and distinct, eminently readable); sewn signatures glued to paper spine: binding overall tight, with a few pages of first signature slightly stretched (NOT cracked); soft creases echoing through top right of some pages (ostensibly, incurred at time of book manufacture); cover corners are nearly square (hint of outward curls; NO bumps); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Classic readings in remarkable condition for more than 50 years old.