The first survey of the major professions in the USSR

Anthony Jones currently teaches Sociology at Northeastern University and is a Fellow at the Russian Center of Harvard University.

Preface
1. Professions and the State in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union: Theoretical Issues - Eliott Krause
2. The Hybrid Profession: Soviet Medicine - Mark G. Vleld
3. Lawyers In the Soviet Union - Louise Shelley
4. Soviet Engineers as a Professional Group - Eduard Gioeckner
5. The "Purposeful Science" of Soviet Sociology: Will It Become a Profession? - Llah Greenfeld
6. Teachers in the Soviet Union - Anthony Jones
7. Constraints on Professional Power in Soviet-Type Society: Insights From the 1980-81 Solidarity Period in Poland - Michael Kennedy and Konrad Sadkowski
8. Hierarchy of Status and Prestige Within the Medical Profession In Czechoslovakia - Aiena Heitiinger
9. Professions, the State, and the Reconstruction of Socialist Societies - Anthony Jones and Eliott Krause
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