Soviet Social Science The Challenge for the American Academic Community, Summary of a Meeting (1990) / Chapter Skim
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The agenda for the two-day meeting and a list of participants appear at the end of the summary. THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOVIET SOCIAL SCIENCE Blair Ruble, The Kennan Institute Ruble focused on the distinguishing features of Soviet behavioral and social science in the pre-1985 period and on the changes since 1985 in the rules of the game.
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In the social sciences, there were 225,000 workers (compared with 316,000 in the United States)
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Since 1985, the transformation of Soviet political life has been changing social science. Soviet social science is undergoing reorganization from top to bottom.
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The IREX Commission on the Humanities and the Social Sciences was established in the early 1970s, creating a legitimate framework for joint wore It grew quickly and eventually established subcommissions in all the participating fields. Thousands of American scholars from Soviet studies and other fields have been involved, creating networks of acquaintances across disciplines.
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The issue relates to the question of whether the U.S. role should be to improve social science or to democratize the Soviet Union.
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6 SOVIET SOCIAL SCIENCE should try to attach bilateral activities to the relationships developing between Western and Eastern Europe. He noted that, until recently, the Soviets and Eastern Europeans did not want to work together, and the Soviets did not want third parties in U.S.~oviet meetings.
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