Socialism in one Country 1924-1926 2. [antikvár]

PREFACE The general arrangement of the three volumes to be published under the title Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926, of which the present is the second, was explained in the preface to the first of these volumes published last year. Since I worked on the first and second volumes more or less simultaneously, the record in that preface of the names of friends and scholars to whom I had been especially indebted for advice, assistance and encouragement, and of the libraries and institutions which had supplied me with much of my material, applies equally to the present volume; and I need only here reiterate the very warm thanks which I continue to owe to all of them. I should, however, like to take this opportunity of adding some further names. Professor Yuzuru Taniuchi, Professor of Political Science and Public Administration in the University of Nagoya, who is engaged in a detailed study of Soviet local government, has given me valuable assistance in the chapters on Regionaliza-tion and on the Revitalization of the Soviets. Dr J. M. Meijer, head of the Russian division of the International Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis at Amsterdam, helped me with important material for the chapter on the Red Army, and Dr R. M. Slusser of the Hoover Library, Stanford, for the chapter on Order and Security; in the section on party education, I have drawn on an unpublished thesis on the subject written by Mr Zev Katz in the London School of Economics. To all of these I express my sincere thanks. I am also particularly grateful to Professor Merle Fainsod for having allowed me, while I was at Harvard early in 1957, to inspect the 'Smolensk archives' on which he was working. The magnitude of the archives would in any event have prevented my investigating them in detail; and what I saw confirmed the impression that their major value is for periods later than 1926. But I was able to dip into a few files of special interest to me, and found some points which are recorded in footnotes in the present volume. Professor Fainsod's book, Smolensk under Soviet RulCy