Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and International Relations, Bostonuniversity

CURRICULUM VITAE 2/2010

Walter D. Connor

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Professor of Political Science, Sociology, and International Relations, BostonUniversity

Chair, Dept. of Political Science, BostonUniversity (9/1/07------)

Fellow, DavisCenter for Russian and Eurasian Studies, HarvardUniversity

EDUCATION:

Ph.D.1969PrincetonUniversity

M.A.1966PrincetonUniversity

B.A.1963HolyCrossCollege

PERSONAL DATA:

Born 20 April 1942, New York; married 22 October 1966, 2 children

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

Director, Soviet and East European Studies, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State, 7/76-7/84

Associate Chairman, Department of Sociology, U. of Michigan, 7/73-6/75

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, U. of Michigan, 7/69-6/76

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, U. of Michigan, 7/68-6/69

CONCURRENT/VISITING POSITIONS:

Visiting Professor of Political Science, ColumbiaU., 9-12/89

Visiting Professor of Sociology, U. of Virginia, 9/81-6/84

Professorial Lecturer in Government, GeorgetownU., 1-5/82

Senior Fellow in Sociology, U. of Pennsylvania, 9/76-6/79

ADDRESSES:

Department of Political ScienceDavisCenter(Home)

BostonUniversityHarvardUniversity26 Downing Road

232 Bay State Road1730 Cambridge St..Brookline, MA02445

Boston, MA02215Cambridge, MA02138(617) 739-0539

(617) 353-2540/-7003

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS ETC.:

• NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 1964-67
• USA/USSR Young Faculty Exchange, 1969 (MoscowStateUniversity, Department of Criminal Law)
• University of Michigan Faculty Fellowship, 1971
• American Council of Learned Societies, Grant in Soviet Studies, 1973
• USA/USSR Senior Scholar Exchange, 1973 (nominated by USA, Soviet visa denied)
• American Council of Learned Societies, Grants in Soviet and in East European Studies, 1975-76
• Department of State, Meritorious Honor Award, 1984
• John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1986-1987
• National Council for Soviet and East European Research Awards, 1986-87, 1992-93
• International Research and Exchanges Board Travel Grants, 1988, 1993

SERVICE, ETC:

• Consultant, Ford Foundation/Foreign Area Fellowship Program, 1969-71
• Editorial Advisory Board, Soviet Sociology, 1970-1988
• Managing Editor for Sociology, Soviet Union/Union Sovietique, 1972-1979
• Consultant, International Research and Exchanges Board, 1973-76
• International board, Studies in Comparative Communism, 1980-89
• Council on Foreign Relations, study group on “Domestic Factors in Soviet Foreign Policy,” 1979-80
• Program Committee, International Research and Exchanges board, 1980-89
• Deputy Coordinator, National Targets Project, National Council on Foreign Language and International Studies, 1980-81
• Chair, Dept. of Political Science, 9/1987-8/1992
• Editorial Board, Eastern European Politics and Societies, 1986-88
• Associate Editor, American Sociological Review, 1987-1990
• Board of Directors, World Affairs Council of Boston, 1990-1997
• Consultant, Fulbright-IIE Fellowship Program, 1999--2004
• Consultant, National Security Education Program/Boren Fellowships, 2001--2004
• Treasurer, and Board of Directors, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 2001—2004
• Chair, Dept. of Political Science, 9/2007—8/2010

BOOKS:

1972DEVIANCE IN SOVIET SOCIETY: CRIME, DELINQUENCY AND ALCOHOLISM (New York and London: ColumbiaUniversity Press), 327 pp.

1977PUBLIC OPINION IN EUROPEAN SOCIALIST SYSTEMS (New York: Praeger Publishers, with Z. Y. Gitelman), 196 pp.

1979SOCIALISM, POLITICS AND EQUALITY: HIERARCHY AND CHANGE IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE USSR (New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press), 389 pp.

1988SOCIALISM’S DILEMMAS: STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE SOVIET BLOC (New York: Columbia University Press), 320 pp.

1991SOVIET SOCIAL PROBLEMS (Boulder: Westview Press, co-edited with A. Jones and D.E. Powell), 337 pp.

THE ACCIDENTAL PROLETARIAT: WORKERS, POLITICS AND CRISIS IN GORBACHEV’S RUSSIA (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 374 pp.

1992ESCAPE FROM SOCIALISM: THE POLISH ROUTE (Warsaw: IFiS Publishers, co-edited with P. Ploszajski), 312 pp.

[U.S. version] THE POLISH ROADFROM SOCIALISM (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe), 319 pp.

1996TATTERED BANNERS: LABOR, CONFLICT AND CORPORATISM IN POST-COMMUNIST RUSSIA (Boulder: Westview Press, 231 pp.)

ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ETC.:

1970

“Juvenile Delinquency in the USSR: Some Quantitative and Qualitative Indicators” AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 35, 2, (April), 283-297.

“Deviant Behavior in Capitalist Society: The Soviet Image” JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY, 31, 4 (December), 554-564

1971

“Alcohol and Soviet Society” SLAVIC REVIEW, 30, 3 (September), 570-588

-reprinted in M. Marshall, ed., BELIEFS, BEHAVIORS, AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1979) 433-449

1972

“The Soviet Criminal Correction System: Change and Stability” LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW, 6, 3 (February), 367-391

“Socialist Sociology” PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM, 21, 4 (July-August), 90-93 (review essay)

-reprinted (“La sociologia socialista”) in PROBLEMAS INTERNACIONALES, 19, 5 (September-October 1972), 80-84

“The Manufacture of Deviance: The Case of the Soviet Purge, 1936-1938” AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW, 37, 4, (August), 403-413

-reprinted in Warner Modular Publications, no. 51 (1973)

-reprinted in F. James Davis and Richard Stivers, eds., THE COLLECTIVE DEFINITION OF DEVIANCE (New York: Free Press, 1975), 241-255

1973

“Criminal Homicide, USSR/USA: Reflections on Soviet Data in a Comparative Framework” JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY 64, 1, 111-117

-reprinted in Sheldon L. Messinger, Marvin E. Wolfgang et al., eds., CRIME AND JUSTICE (Chicago: Aldine, 1974), 206-212

“Dissent in a Complex Society: The Soviet Case” PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM, 22, 2 (March-April), 40-52

1975

“De l’utopie a la societe “pragmatique”: Les consequences sociales des reformes economiques en Europe de l’Est” REVUE D’ETUDES COMPARATIVES EST-OUEST, 6, 1, (March), 107-141

-also printed (“Social Consequences of Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe”) in Zbigniew Fallenbuchl, ed., ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1975), 65-99

“Differentiation, Integration, and Political Dissent in the USSR” in Rudolf L. Tokes, ed., DISSENT IN THE USSR: POLITICS, IDEOLOGY, AND PEOPLE (Baltimore: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press), 139-157

“Education and National Development in the European Socialist States: A Model for the Third World?” COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY 17, 3 (July), 326-348

“Generations and Politics in the USSR” PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM, 24, 5 (September-October), 20-31

“Revolution, Modernization, and Communism” STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE COMMUNISM, 8, 4 (Winter), 389-396 (review essay)

1976

“Deviance, Stress, and Modernization in Eastern Europe” in Mark G. Field, ed., SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNIZATION IN COMMUNIST SOCIETIES (Baltimore: JohnsHopkinsUniversity Press), 181-203

1977

“Socialism, Work and Equality” in Irving Louis Horowitz, ed., EQUITY, INCOME, AND POLICY: COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN THREE WORLDS OF DEVELOPMENT (New York: Praeger Publishers), 146-175

“Social Change and Stability in Eastern Europe” PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM, 26, 6 (November-December), 16-32

-reprinted (“Social Forandring og stabilitet i Osteuropa--meget mere end socialisme”) in FREMTIDEN, 34, 1 (1979), 18-30

1979

“Workers, Politics, and Class Consciousness” in Arcadius Kahan and Blair Ruble, eds., INDUSTRIAL LABOR IN THE USSR (New York: Pergamon Press), 313-332

1980

“Dissent in Eastern Europe: A New Coalition?” PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM, 29, 1 (January-February), 1-17

1981

“Mass Expectations and Regime Performance” in Seweryn Bialer, ed., THE DOMESTIC CONTEXT OF SOVIET FOREIGN POLICY (Boulder and London: Westview/Croom Helm), 155-173

“Workers and Power” in Jan F. Triska and Charles Gati, eds., BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS IN EASTERN EUROPE (London: Allen and Unwin), 157-172

1982

“Varieties of East European Dissent” STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE COMMUNISM, 15, 4 (Winter), 396-412 (review essay)

“Soviet and East European Studies in the National Interest: Academia, Government and Public,” in W.D. Connor, R. Levgold, D. Matuszewski, Foreign Area Research in the National Interest: American and Soviet Perspectives (IREX Occasional Papers, v.1, no. 8; New York: IREX, 1982)

1983

“The Soviet Union After Brezhnev: The Economic Challenge” THE WASHINGTON QUARTERLY (Spring), 17-28

“The Successor Generation in Eastern Europe” in Stephen F. Szabo, ed., THE SUCCESSOR GENERATION: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF POSTWAR EUROPEANS (London: Butterworths), 141-166

1984

“Die Sowjetwirtschaft unter Andropow und die Politik des Westens” EUROPAISCHE RUNDSCHAU (Winter), 27-43

1985

“Class, Politics, and Economic Stress: Eastern Europe after 1984,” in Jeffrey Simon and Trond Gilberg, eds., SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF NATIONALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE (Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College), 49-65 (Boulder, CO: Westview edition, 1986)

“Opposition in Eastern Europe,” in George Schopflin, ed., THE USSR AND EASTERN EUROPE: A HANDBOOK (New York: Facts on File)

“Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Lessons of the Brezhnev Era,” STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE COMMUNISM, 18, 4 (Winter), 261-269 (review essay)

1986

“Social Policy under Gorbachev,” PROBLEMS OF COMMUNISM 35, 4 (July-August) 31-46

1987

“Social Mobility and Democratic Capitalism in America,” in Peter L. Berger, ed., CAPITALISM AND EQUALITY IN AMERICA (New York: Hamilton Press/Institute for Educational Affairs) 108-141

“Information and Society: Poland in the Eighties” (World Affairs Associates (N.A.) Inc. report, for Office of Research, USIA), September

1988

“Gorbachev’s Social Policy,” in Arthur B. Gunlicks, ed., GORBACHEV’S FIRST YEAR (New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc.)

“The Soviet Working Class: Change and Its Political Impact,” in Michael P. Sacks and Jerry G. Pankhurst, eds., UNDERSTANDING SOVIET SOCIETY (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988), 31-51

1989

“Imperial Dilemmas: Soviet Interests and Economic Reform,” in Victor Nee and David Stark, eds., REMAKING THE ECONOMIC INSTITUTIONS OF SOCIALISM: CHINA AND EASTERN EUROPE (Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press), 306-327

“Solidarity Has Reasons to Temper Its Rejoicing,” MIAMI HERALD, Viewpoint (June 11)

“The Domestic Agenda: Perestroika’s Problems at the Grass Roots,” in Bernard Rubin, ed., SHOCK WAVES: CONSEQUENCES OF GLASNOST’ AND PERESTROIKA (Boston University College of Communications Studies, v.2, no.6), 156-171

1990

“A Survey of Opinion on the East European Revolution” (Contributor), EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETIES, v.4, no.2, 153-205

1991

“Class, Politics, Economics: Old Hopes, New Fears,” REPORT ON EASTERN EUROPE, v.2, no. 7 (February 15), 41-44

“Equality of Opportunity,” in Jones, Connor and Powell, eds., SOVIET SOCIAL PROBLEMS (Boulder: Westview Press), 137-153

“The Rocky Road: Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Economy, 1986-1989,” in Brigitte Berger, ed., THE CULTURE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (San Francisco: ICS), 189-209

“The Labor Force: Problems and Opportunities,” in James L. Hecht, ed., RUBLES AND DOLLARS: STRATEGIES FOR DOING BUSINESS IN THE SOVIET UNION (New York: Harper Collins), 47-63

“Responses to ‘Lenin Nyet: The Revolution that Failed’,” (contributor), THE NEW LEADER, November 4-18, pp. 15-16

1992

“Fast Forward, Rewind: Politics in the Gorbachev Era,” STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE COMMUNISM, XXV, 1 (March), 79-87 (review essay)

“Politika v epokhu Gorbacheva: printsip ‘mayatnika’,” SOTSIOLOGICHESKIE ISSLEDOVANIIA, no. 5, 73-79 (review essay)

“Class, Social Structure, Nationality,“ in Alexander J. Motyl, ed., THE POST-SOVIET NATIONS: PERSPECTIVES ON THE DEMISE OF THE U.S.S.R. (New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press), 272-301

1994

“Labor Politics in Postcommunist Russia: A Preliminary Assessment,” in James R. Millar and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds., THE SOCIAL LEGACY OF COMMUNISM (Washington/New York: WoodrowWilsonCenter Press/Cambridge University Press), 329-353

1995

“Labor in the New Russia: Four Years On,” PROBLEMS OF POSTCOMMUNISM, 42, 3 (March-April), 8-12

1996

“Washington and Moscow: Tales of Two Ambassadors,” STRATEGIC REVIEW, 24, 3 (Summer), 59-66. (review essay)

1997

“Social Policy Under Communism,” in E.B. Kapstein and M. Mandelbaum, eds., SUSTAINING THE TRANSITION: THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET IN POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE (New York: Council on Foreign Relations), 10-45

“Observations on the Status of Russia’s Workers,” POST-SOVIET GEOGRAPHY AND ECONOMICS, 38, 9, 550-557

1999

“Five Years Without a Plan: Workers in Russia’s Economic Revolution,” in Melvin Kohn, Aleksandra Jasinska-Kania and Kazimierz M. Slomczynski, eds., POWER AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE (Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego), 212-224

“Red Square to Main Street: Tales of the Cold War, American Communism and Soviet Espionage,” STRATEGIC REVIEW, 27, 4 (Fall), 64-74 (review essay)

2000

“New World of Work: Employment, Unemployment and Adaptation,” in Judith Twigg and Mark G. Field, eds., RUSSIA’S TORN SAFETY NETS: HEALTH AND SOCIALWELFARE DURING THE TRANSITION (New York: St. Martin’s Press), 191-212

"Europe West and East: Thoughts on History, Culture, and Kosovo," in Z. Gitelman, L. Hajda, J-P. Himka and R. Solchanyk, eds., CULTURES AND NATIONS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE (Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press/HURI), 71-88

"The Unconventional Cold War," STRATEGIC REVIEW, 28, 4 (Fall), 73-78 (review essay)

2001

"Class, Status, Powerlessness," in David Lane, ed., THE LEGACY OF STATE SOCIALISM

AND THE FUTURE OF TRANSFORMATION (New York: Rowman and Littlefield)

2003

"Soviet Society, Public Attitudes, and the Perils of Gorbachev's Reforms: The Social Context of the End of the USSR," JOURNAL OF COLD WAR STUDIES, 5, 4 (Fall), 43-80

2004

"Anti-Americanism in the New Russia," in Paul Hollander, ed., UNDERSTANDING ANTI-AMERICANISM: ITS ORIGINS AND IMPACT AT HOME AND ABROAD (New York: Ivan R. Dee ), 214-235

2005

“Builder and Destroyer: Gorbachev’s Soviet Revolutions, 1985-1991,” DEMOKRATIZATSIYA (Special Issue: Perestroika in Perspective), 13, 2 (Spring), 173-191

2007

“A Russia That Can Say ‘No’?,” COMMUNIST & POST-COMMUNIST STUDIES, no. 40, 2007, 383-391 (review essay)

2008

“Beyond Models and Regulations: Eastward Expansion vs. Retrenchment in the ‘New’ EU,” in J-M Radlo, Wojciech.Bienkowski and Joseph Brada, eds., GROWTH VS. SECURITY: OLD AND NEW EU MEMBERS’ QUESTS FOR A NEW ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MODEL (London: Palgrave/Macmillan), 178-199later version (also in Polish, see 2010)

2010

“Poza modelami i regulacjami: ekspansja na Wschod a zamkniecie sie w “nowej” Unii Europejshiej?” in W. Bienkowski and M-J. Radlo, , eds., WZROST GOSPODARCZY CZY BEZPIECZENSTWO SOCJALNE? (ECONOMIC GROWTH OR SOCIAL SECURITY?) (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN), 194-215

Forthcoming

“Post-Communist Transition,” in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POLITICAL SCIENCE (CQ Press)

“In Pursuit of Welfare and Security: Along the Paths of Post-Communist Transition,” in

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WELFARE (review essay)

LECTURES, PAPERS, MEDIA APPEARANCES, ETC.

1970

“The ‘Sociological Enterprise’ in the USSR: Prospects for Development and Diffusion” (Conference on the Influence of Eastern Europe and the Western Territories of the USSR on Soviet Society, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May)

“Aspects of Criminological Research in the USSR” (Conference on Sociological Analysis of Communist Societies, HarvardUniversity, May)

“The Soviet Criminal Correction System: Stability and Change” (American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September)

1972

“Social Class and Criminality in the Soviet Union” (OhioStateUniversity, Columbus, January)

“Criminal Homicide USA/USSR: Some Soviet Data in a Comparative Framework” (Midwest Slavic Conference, WashingtonUniversity, St. Louis, March)

“Societal Complexity and Political Dissent: Five Soviet Themes” (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Meeting, DallasTX, March)

“Deviance, Stress, and Modernization in Eastern Europe” (ACLS Conference on Modernization in Communist Societies, Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, September)

“Trends in Soviet Criminology” (University of Pennsylvania, Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, November)

1973

“Sociology in the USSR and Eastern Europe” (roundtable, American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, New York City, August)

1974

“The Future of Comparative Studies: Some Trends and Problems” (International Studies Association, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, March)

“Sociological Research and Communist Studies” (Midwest Slavic Conference, Milwaukee, May)

“Blue Collars, White Collars, and Equality: Some Problems at the Borderline of Manual and Nonmanual Work” (8th World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, August)

“Occupational Mobility in the European Socialist States” (American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Montreal, August)

“From ‘Utopia’ to the ‘Pragmatic Society’: Social Consequences of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe” (1st International Slavic Conference, Banff, Alberta, September)

“Youth and Generational Change in Post-Brezhnev Politics: Some Issues” (Department of State, Conference on Soviet Political Succession, Airlie House, Warrenton VA, December)

1975

“Stratification Patterns under Socialism” (Columbia University, Research Institute on International Change, January)

“Social Stratification in Socialist Societies” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January)

“Theft and Property in Socialist Systems” (PennsylvaniaStateUniversity, University Park, PA, March)

1976

“Consumption, Careers and Mass Concerns: Economic Performance and Political Stability in the USSR” (Workshop on Political Stability and Socio-Economic Change in the Soviet Union, Columbia University, Research Institute on International Change, May)

“Non-collaborative Research in Eastern Europe” (USIA, Scholar-Diplomat Seminar on Cross-Cultural Communications in Eastern Europe, August)

“Socialism, Work and Equality: A Preliminary Statement” (American Political Science Association, Annual Meeting, Chicago, September)

1977

“Social Mobility and its Political Consequences in Eastern Europe” (GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, January)

“ ______” (University of Virginia, Center for Russian and East European Studies, February)

“ ______” (University of Maryland, April)

“ ______” (New England Slavic Conference, HarvardUniversity, April)

“ ______” (University of Michigan, Center for Russian and East European Studies, May)

“ ______” (University of Connecticut, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Storrs, CT, December)

“Socialist Property and Socialist Theft” (GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, September)

“ ______” (MaryWashingtonCollege, FredericksburgVA, October)

“ ______” (GraduateCenter, City University of New York, November)

“The Soviet Worker: Social Stratification and Political Perceptions” (Conference on Problems of Industrial Labor in the USSR, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC, September)

panelist, “Convergence Revisited” (Mid-Atlantic Slavic Conference, University of Pennsylvania, March)

panelist, “Soviet Internal Problems” (ICAF, NationalDefenseUniversity, Ft. McNair, Washington, DC, May)

panelist, “Soviet Law in Interdisciplinary Perspective” (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October)

panelist, “Social Engineering Through Law in the USSR” (Ford Foundation/Bar Association of the City of New York, October)

1978

panelist, Planning Conference on Comparative Studies of China and the USSR (PrincetonUniversity, April)

co-chairman, Conference on Russian Nationalism and the Soviet Future (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC, May)

“Officialdom, Class, and Soviet Politics” (Conference on The Futures of the Soviet Union, The Hoover Institution, StanfordUniversity, September)

panelist, “Czechoslovakia 1968: Ten Years After” (American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, October)

1979

“Soviet Sociology and Academic Exchanges” (Scholar-Diplomat Seminar, Sponsored by IREX/ICA, U.S.International Communications Agency, Washington, DC; February 2)

“Can the USSR Satisfy its Citizens’ Ambitions? A Sociologist’s View” (luncheon colloquium, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; February 14)

“Intellectuals, Workers, and Political Dissent in Eastern Europe” (GeorgeWashingtonUniversity, Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, Washington, DC; March 1)

“Dissent in Eastern Europe: The Worker-Intelligentsia Linkage” (Annual Meeting, British National Association of Soviet and East European Studies, FitzwilliamCollege, CambridgeUniversity; March 24-26)

“Social Change and Political Instability in Eastern Europe” (Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, March 28)

“The Soviet Role in Eastern Europe” (Southern Center for International Studies, Atlanta, GA March 14)

panel chairman, “Stratification, Migration and Ethnicity in Communist Systems” (Annual Convention, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, New Haven, CT, October)

“Social Structure and Differentiation in Developed Communist Societies” (paper for ACLS conference on “Authoritarianism in Eastern Europe,” The Pennsylvania State University, October 17-18)

panelist, “Popular Culture in the Soviet Union” (Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; October 16)

“Class and Privilege in Communist Systems” (OhioStateUniversity, ColumbusOH; October 25)