Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.

Penetrating Views of Russian Culture

Introduction: Russian Culture in the 20th Century
Sergei Arutiunov

The People of Great Russia

INTRODUCTION and INTRODUCTION-1961
Geoffrey Gorer

RUSSIAN CAMERA OBSCURA
Ten Sketches of Russian Peasant Life (1916-1918)
John Rickman

• Iron
• Snow
• Placenta Praevia
• The Apology
• The Threat
• The Bridal Dress
• Police
• Peasant Officers
• A Political Episode
• Moujiks want Glasses

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GREAT RUSSIANS
Geoffrey Gorrer

• Childhood Training
• Character Developments
• The Enemy and Hate
• The Leader, Love, and Truth
• Conclusions

APPENDICES
Appendix I: Development of the Swaddling Hypotheses
Geoffrey Gorer

Appendix II: A Note on the Swaddling Hypotheses
John Rickman

Appendix III: Truth and Guilt
John Rickman

Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority
Margaret Mead

1. Questions Which This Study Seeks to Answer
2. Methods and Materials
   
   • Research Team of Studies in Soviet Culture and Their Areas of Research
3. Background of the Soviet System of Authority
   
   • Bolshevik Assumptions About Human Behavior as Abstracted from Theory and Practice
   • Bolshevik Willingness to Accept or to Fabricate Token Events
4. Soviet Ideals of Authority Relationships
   
   • Expectations from Different Leadership Levels
   • Characteristics of the Ideal Leader
5. Soviet Official Expectations Regarding Motivation
   
   • Motivation for Leadership
   • Expectations Concerning the Masses and Children
6. The Place of the Political Police in the Soviet Authority System
7. Possible Developments in the Soviet Union

APPENDIX
APPENDIX A: Abstract of Research on Leadership in Soviet Agriculture and the Communist Party
APPENDIX B: Summary of Conclusions of Research on Soviet Child Training Ideals and Their Political Significance, by E. Calas
APPENDIX C: Summary of Conclusions of Research on Party and Non-Party Organizations in Soviet Industry, by L. H. Haimson
APPENDIX D: Source Materials Used by Other Members of the Research Group
APPENDIX E: Excerpt Concerning the Communist "Election of May, 1948, in Czechoslovakia" - Taken from Chapter XVI of Unpublished Manuscript "Czechs, Slovaks, and Communism," by David Rodnik
APPENDIX F: "To Aid the Agitator," from Pravda, May 27, 1948
APPENDIX G: "Your Strength" (Poem about Atomic Energy)

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