ALFRED E. CORNEBISE, Typhus and doughboys. The American Polish Typhus Relief Expedition 1919-21, Newark, NJ, University of Delaware Press; Toronto and London, Associated University Presses, 1982, 8vo, pp. 188, illus., £16.60. To preserve his sanity during the Russian Civil War, so Pasternak tells us, Dr Zhivago threw himself into the care of victims of typhus, which in many parts of Eastern Eur...

The authors of the volume under review consider development Soviet political system during pre-war period. They focus on long-standing and still relevant issue scenarios for this possibilities to avoid concentration power in a single pair hands cult personality. At same time, move away from traditional personification process USSR, relegating struggle within leadership All-Union Communist Party...

The OUN’s foreign-policy activity, which during the Second World War changed cardinally – from orientation toward some great state or a group of such states to foundation Anti-Bolshevik Bloc Nations) (ABN) and attraction all enslaved peoples into common struggle, is key element concept national revolution. Considering struggle Ukrainian people as component all-European anti-totalitarian resista...

PITIRIM A. Sorokin has long been one of the leading figures in American sociology. This paper will describe his career briefly and discuss some of his main contributions to sociological thought. Sorokin was born in a Russian peasant village in 1889. From there he went to St. Petersburg for his secondary and higher education. In 1913, at the age of only 24, he became co-editor of New Ideas in So...

After Globalization Paolo Gerbaudo (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution President Joe Biden speaks about the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act at Port of Baltimore on November 10, 2021. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) [End Page 20] In The Great Transformation, published in 1944 as Second World War was still raging, Austro-Hungarian economic historian Karl Polanyi anal...

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...