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- catalog abstract "Treatise on the theory of sentiment (rasa) in Sanskrit poetics.".
- catalog abstract "Comprises articles, chiefly on the life of Vissa Apparao, educationist and Telugu litterateur.".
- catalog abstract "The author portrays American participation in the Vietnam War as the logical culmination of the containment policy that began under Harry Truman in the late 1940's. Also his portrayal of the complex challenge that Vietnam posed for the United States and the varied responses it evoked from American people & leaders.".
- catalog abstract ""This yearbook gives the daily exchange rates as published in the FT for all the major currencies, together with a selection of daily eurocurrency and London money rates."--Introd.".
- catalog abstract "An account of the economic, social, intellectual, and governmental structure and development of Europe in the period which witnessed the beginnings of the contemporary world.".
- catalog abstract "From the development of wildlife laws, traces the social development of the Yukon from the turn of the century to the 1950s.".
- catalog abstract "Jean-Claude Panet (1719-1798) came to Quebec as a soldier in 1740. He married Louise Barolet in about 1748. They had fourteen children. Their son, Jean-Antoine, was the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec. Their son, Bernard-Claude, was the Bishop of Quebec. Follows the lives and military careers of their descendants for seven generations.".
- catalog abstract ""Prepared for distribution at the Regulation of Financial Planners in the 1980's Program, December 2-3, 1985, New York City"--p. 5.".
- catalog abstract ""Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), also known as the story of the Forty-Six (or Forty-Seven) Rōnin, is the most famous and perenially popular of all Japanese dramas. Written around 1748 as a puppet play, it is now better known in Kabuki performances. In the twentieth century, cinema and television versions have been equally successful. Donald Keene here presents a complete translation of the original text, with notes and an introduction that increase the reader's comprehension and enjoyment of the play. The introduction also elucidates the idea of loyalty. This traditional virtue, as exemplified in Chūshingura, has never completely lost its hold on audiences, in spite of twentieth-century changes in Japanese society and moral ideas. Moreover, as Professor Keene points out, the excitement, color and violence expressed in the play may be considered the counterpoint to the austere restraint and understatement which are more commonly thought to be "traditionally" Japanese."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog abstract "For contents and other editions, see Title Catalog.".
- catalog abstract "Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected.".
- catalog abstract "Presents a firsthand account of organized crime showing it's brutality and fascination.".
- catalog abstract "This volume is the fourth of a four-volume collection that presents the diaries of English sociologist, economist, socialist and social reformer Beatrice Webb (1858-1943). In her diary Beatrice expressed her desire to write fully and creatively about her life and she kept her diary from 1873 until her death in 1943. In the diary Beatrice records the activities of her daily life, interactions with friends and family, and her most private thoughts and fears. The fourth (and last) volume of Beatrice Webb's diary is a detailed chronicle of the Webbs' influential lives between the two World Wars, laced with more of Webb's delightfully shrewd portraits of political, literary, and intellectual luminaries. It is also a rare insider's account of the working of the Labour government. The diary runs to within a few days of Beatrice's death in 1943, a time of triumph in her lifelong commitment to social and political change. While Sidney sits on the Labour Cabinets of 1924 and 1929, Beatrice retires to the country to rework her early diaries and produce her classic memoir, My Apprenticeship.".
- catalog abstract "From the start of their courtship the REagans were the kind of couple who held hands in public and kissed with genuine affection. Thier story from Hollywood to the white House.".
- catalog abstract "An examination of the tragic world of migrant workers today. The auhor discusses the difficult conditions in which they and their families live. It also shows how they sometimes triumph over a cruel and harsh system. Includes a number of photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Fictionalized account of the author's experiences in his early youth with the poverty of his family and neighbors. The story takes place in China before the Communist take-over and Chairman Mao's rise to power. The author came to see communism and Mao as the solution to the poverty of the masses.".
- catalog abstract "Luria looks back on his life and career in psychology, drawing attention to the Soviet scientific establishment and his struggle to formulate a new psychological theory concerning memory, language, and intelligence.".
- catalog abstract "Examines thirteen forts in Canada and the United States, including Fort Ticonderoga, Fort Sumter, and the Alamo, and the significant historical events associated with them.".
- catalog abstract "Covers the entire Vietnam War from the first entrance of U.S. planes to the end of the Strategic Airlift returning the prisoners of war including over 300 full -color photographs and maps.".
- catalog abstract "An account of the lives, work, and consciousness of American women during the Eisenhower Era.".
- catalog abstract ""'Survival' is the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. It is ... a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: 'what have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?' Her answer is twofold: 'survival and victims.' Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty and impassioned chapters. From Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Newlove, from Godfrey to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives." The themes are: survival; nature the monster; animal victims; early people (indians and eskimos); ancestral totems (explorers and settlers); family portrait: masks of the bear; failed sacrifices (the reluctant immigrant); the casual incident of death; the paralyzed artist; ice women vs. earth mothers; Quebec: burning mansions; and, jail-breaks and recreations.".
- catalog abstract "Includes history of bills and resolutions.".
- catalog abstract "Etude du problème des relations maîtres-élèves dans le contexte du décalage existant entre l'offre scolaire et le modèle culturel. L'apport de l'analyse transactionnelle et de la méthode de Thomas Gordon dans la formation des enseignants.".
- catalog abstract "At the beginning of August 1980, the movement which would eventually become Solidarity consisted of a few dozen individuals scattered throughout Poland. Within a year, as its first anniversary posters proudly proclaimed, Solidarity's membership had swelled to "10 million Solid." Ten million highly disciplined, active Polish citizens moving in unison to seek a better life - perhaps the most astonishing flowering of political hope in the world's recent history. Within another six months, however, that hope was being smashed in a stunning, brutal military takeover. Lawrence Weschler's reports for The New Yorker on the spirit and aspirations of the short-lived Polish renewal have been praised as among the most vivid and thoughtful to have yet appeared. This volume consists of an expanded version of these articles, plus a timely epilogue and a detailed and useful chronology of Polish history since 1939 (within the context of simultaneous world history and with particular emphasis on the events of 1980 and 1981). Weschler's account, rife with anecdote, explores the economic, historic, and religious conditions that made Solidarity possible, the individual heroism that made it actual, and the dark political realities that always made it vulnerable. There is also a substantial digression on the troubled conscience of Poland because of its treatment of the Jews. In his epilogue, Weschler considers the future of the ongoing aspirations which Solidarity championed. "We have not yet heard the end of the episode," he insists. Over 50 photographs supplement the text (including exclusive shots of the 1970 Gdansk massacre, smuggled out of Poland), along with a rich sampling of Solidarity poster art. -- from dust jacket.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of essays on the American West covers such issues as urban growth, the gentrification of the small-town West, and wilderness preservation.".
- catalog abstract "A year-by-year chronology, beginning with 1900 and ending with 1980, presenting notable Brazilian events.".
- catalog abstract "The political divisions, history, geography, folklore, etc., of each of Honduras' Departments are described.".
- catalog abstract ""The chapters each represent a lecture presented by Albright and include indepth studies of Clyfford Still and the Explosion of Abstract Expressionism, Before the Storm: The Modernist Foundation, The Watershed: Funk, Pop, and Formalism, "Back to Nature": The Bay Area Figurative School, Conceptualism, Photorealism, etc. The written word is well illustrated with selected examples, but therein lies the only weakness of this book. In an overview this solid it would be so much finer were there double the number of examples of the artists being discussed. Still in all this is a magnificent volume and should be a part of every art library."--Amazon.".
- catalog abstract "The first North American newspaperman to go into the Nicaraguan mountains with the Contras and come out alive recounts his experiences.".
- catalog abstract "Deals with the Bhils of South Rajasthan.".
- catalog abstract "In 1983, Swiss psychiatrist C. A. Meier delivered a paper at the 3rd World Congress in Inverness, Scotland. "Wilderness and the Search for the Soul of Modern Man" addressed not only the tragedy of our vanishing wilderness and the need to preserve it, but also the necessity of preserving man's 'inner wilderness.' A Testament to the Wilderness consists of Meier's original address and thoughtful and provocative responses by nine concerned writers from around the world.".
- catalog abstract "Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the Colonel's library.".
- catalog abstract "Contains 27 papers presented at the conference "The History of the Discovery of the Arctic Regions as Seen through the Descriptions of Travellers and the Work of Cartographers from Early Antiquity to the 18th Century" organized by Comite Arctique International and held in Rome in 1981. Also published as vol.37, no.4 (December 1984) of Arctic.".
- catalog abstract "The author describes her childhood in rural Alabama, unhappy marriage, domestic work, and experiences with discrimination.".
- catalog abstract "Articles on Indian philosophy and culture.".
- catalog abstract "Intended to collect in one source terminology of the current methods of inquiry shared by the various social sciences. Terms selected for inclusion tend to reflect "its relevance to the current practice of research rather than its potential theoretical importance." Length of entries varies. Formulas, charts, and graphs are included. Cross references.".
- catalog abstract "Provides parents with a method of handling the problems and conflicts that arise while raising children.".
- catalog abstract "Papers.".
- catalog abstract "History of the Uttaradi Mutt, the highest seat of the Madhava sect in Vaishnavism, in Bangalore.".
- catalog abstract "The summing-up of his creed, and his final testament.".
- catalog abstract "Introduces Basic computer language and explains techniques for using the computer to solve problems in various fields.".
- catalog abstract "1340 entries to serial and monographic publications dealing in a primary way with the subject. Databases used were MEDLINE, ERIC, NCMHI, and PSYCHOINFO. Classified arrangement. Each entry gives bibliographical information and brief annotation. Author, subject indexes.".
- catalog abstract "Dans cet essai de philosophie politique, les auteurs tentent de démontrer l'inadéquation de l'Etat-nation et de démystifier l'aspiration nationaliste québécoise à cette identification de l'Etat à la nation. Voyant la réalisation de l'aspiration nationaliste québécoise comme un nouvel enfermement, ils se demandent si, après le déblocage de la pensée des années 1960, devant l'immense possibilité d'invention de la culture en Amérique du Nord, cette aspiration ne serait pas une nouvelle manifestation de notre peur atavique de l'Amérique, le désir inavoué de nous replier sur nous-mêmes, comme autrefois autour de nos églises, pour nous protéger de tout ce que représente d'inquiétant cette aventure redoutable d'Amérique encore à inventer. La dernière partie du tome II reproduit deux études antérieures de l'auteur, liées à la même démarche et qui prennent comme point de départ deux romans: "Les demi-civilisés" de Jean-Charles Harvey et "Famille-sans-nom" de Jules Verne. SDM.".
- catalog abstract "Sixteen years after the Vietnam war corporate executive Ben Tyson thought he had put the horror of the war behind him, allegations of a civilian massacre by soldiers under his command brings him to trial.".
- catalog abstract "Depicts the life of Katharine Hepburn and descripbes her struggle to achieve success as a movie actress.".
- catalog abstract "An introduction to the techniques of yogic breathing, together with a background of yoga philosophy.".
- catalog abstract "Selected texts and digests on Hindu law.".
- catalog abstract "The progress that ethnographies have been making in educational evaluation and how ethnography has adapted to the educational sphere is analysed in this book. A diverse selection of case studies illustrates the intricacies of the issues and concerns involved in this process of adaptation. The book is divided into three sections. The first presents an overview of the state-of-the-art and a discussion of ethnographic techniques in evaluation research. A series of illustrative case studies of ethnographic evaluation are explored and examined in the second section. The case studies include national studies as well as local and international level studies. The final section addresses theoretical and ethical dilemmas in ethnographic evaluation. --From publisher's description.".
- catalog abstract "Study covers the period 1960-1961 to 1979-1980.".
- catalog abstract "A narrative of one woman's research into and search for jealousy in her own life, how she came to deal with it, and suggestions for others on how to handle jealousy in your own life.".
- catalog abstract "Traces the life and career of the seventeenth-century painter, shows all of his works, and offers a fresh analysis of each painting.".
- catalog abstract "Describes the life and accomplishments of the founding father of American architecture.".
- catalog abstract ""We live in the information age. Statistical surveys are used every day to determine or evaluate public policy and to make important business decisions. Correct methods for computing the precision of the survey data and for making inferences to the target population are absolutely essential to sound decision making. Now in its second edition, Introduction to Variance Estimation has for more than twenty years provided the definitive account of the theory and methods for correct precision calculations and inference, including examples of modern, complex surveys in which the methods have been used successfully. The book provides instruction on the methods that are vital to data-driven decision making in business, government, and academe. It will appeal to survey statisticians and other scientists engaged in the planning and conduct of survey research, and to those analyzing survey data and charged with extracting compelling information from such data. It will appeal to graduate students and university faculty who are focused on the development of new theory and methods and on the evaluation of alternative methods. Software developers concerned with creating the computer tools necessary to enable sound decision-making will find it essential. Prerequisites include knowledge of the theory and methods of mathematical statistics and graduate coursework in survey statistics. Practical experience with real surveys is a plus and may be traded off against a portion of the requirement for graduate coursework. This second edition reflects shifts in the theory and practice of sample surveys that have occurred since the content of the first edition solidified in the early 1980's. Additional replication type methods appeared during this period and have featured prominently in journal publications. Reflecting these developments, the second edition now includes a new major chapter on the bootstrap method of variance estimation. This edition also includes extensive new material on Taylor series methods, especially as they apply to newer methods of analysis such as logistic regression or the generalized regression estimator. An introductory section on survey weighting has been added. Sections on Hadamard matrices and computer software have been substantially scaled back. Fresh material on these topics is now readily available on the Internet or from commercial sources. Kirk Wolter is a Senior Fellow at NORC, Director of the Center for Excellency in Survey Research, and Professor in the Department of Statistics, University of Chicago. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Member of the International Statistical Institute. He is a past president of the International Association of Survey Statisticians and a past chair of the Survey Research Methods Section of the American Statistical Association. During the last 35 years, he has participated in the planning, execution, and analysis of large-scale complex surveys and has provided instruction in survey statistics both in America and around the world."--Publisher description (LoC).".
- catalog abstract "Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly.".
- catalog abstract "Digest, with Nyāyabodhinī commentary by Govardhanamiśra, 17th cent. and Sītā and Padmā commentaries by Anand Jha, b. 1914, of Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika philosophies.".
- catalog abstract "Ce recueil est précédé de données fort intéressantes sur la vie, les moeurs, les coutumes et l'histoire des Amérindiens.".
- catalog abstract "On the political scene of Pakistan under the leadership of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.".
- catalog abstract "Includes the Deaconess Home, Training School, and Hospital.".
- catalog abstract ""Story of a community of black people searching for the healing properties of salt, who witness an event that will change their lives forever. Some of them are centered, some are off-balance; some are frightened, and some are daring."--Page 4 of cover.".
- catalog abstract ""Under communism, the power of the state is still being bolstered and the state is swelling up. The people are not growing lean, but not fat either, due to exorbitant demands made by the military on the resources of the state. In part also the rigidity of, and lack of incentives provided by centralized economic planning are stultifying growth and tending to impose quite painful choices on the Soviet leadership at a time when that leadership seems weak and uncertain ..."--Introduction.".
- catalog abstract "This book is a festschrift for Torsten Hagerstrand. "Through your work on migration, innovation diffusion, and time-geography you have helped demonstrate that geography's most profound insights are to be gained from the study of process rather than form."".
- catalog abstract "Bibliography of dissertations from various universities throughout the world available in microform, photocopy, and typescript.".
- catalog abstract "Examines the problems inherent in the increasing incidence of urban residence among Indians of the prairie provinces, and the programmes provided for them by municipal, provincial, and federal governments.".
- catalog abstract "Agatha Christie's first novel, introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily.".
- catalog abstract "Pit Poirot against peril and you get perfection. Someone is stalking the lady of End House. She claims her only friend is a ghost. Hercule Poirot has his more earthbound theories of what's happening.".
- catalog abstract ""Kristeva is one of the leading voices in contemporary French criticism, on a par with such names as Genette, Foucault, Greimas and others ... [Powers of Horror is] an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse. The sections on Céline, for example, are indispensable reading for those interested in this writer and place him within a context that is both illuminating and of general interest"--Paul de Man, p. [4] of cover.".
- catalog abstract "Story of adultery and a clergyman who destroys his sister's art. The first plot contained in this novel is that of Rachael West an heiress and her love for a man trapped in an illicit affair who is doomed to die by is own hand. The second plot is about a gifted female writer who is unable to break away and start her own life free of her family.".
- catalog abstract "Three interrelated stories, based on an actual photograph made in 1914, that connect in a surprising way and provide a mystery that spans a century of brutality and progress.".
- catalog abstract "A program of Spanish paintings, music and dance at El Prado Museum. Segovia doubles as performer and host.".
- catalog abstract "Presents four ballets by choreographer Roland Petit, including his version of Carmen, with music by Georges Bizet.".
- catalog abstract "Contains 14 papers presented at the Alaska Highway 40th Anniversary Symposium, held June 1982 at Northern Lights College, Fort St. John, BC. Divided into five sections: Planning the highway. - Building the highway. - Canadian sovereignty and the Alaska Highway. - The postwar highway. - The impact of the Alaska Highway.".
- catalog abstract "The first work is a documentary biography of Arturo Toscanini. It includes rare color home movies and interviews with various artists who worked with him.".
- catalog abstract "In Syntactic Structures (The Hague, 1957) and elsewhere, Noam Chomsky claims that the test of whether or not a sentence is well formed or grammatical is its acceptability to the native speaker. In the format of a dialogue, Paikeday's book examines and criticizes that claim. The colloquy is peopled with some well-known and impressive representatives from linguistics, philosophy, and psychology. There are even lexicographers here. Paikeday's point is that the native speaker is ``an ideal, a convenient fiction, a shibboleth'' with no more reality or reference than a unicorn. Difficulties with the native speaker concept are brought out by comparing it with such related themes as mother tongue, fluency, linguistic competence, and the phenomenon of non-native linguistic proficiency. Discussion often veers into problems concerned with the metaphysical status of language; and at these times, the Chomsky character taxes his critics with raising pseudo-problems and reifying language in the manner of Platonic objects. This reviewer is still inclined to Chomsky's view of things, and to the belief that the title of the book has not been vindicated. -- from http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca (Feb. 5, 2014).".
- catalog abstract "The poet Rodolfo falls in love with his ill neighbor, Mimi.".
- catalog abstract "The February 16, 1980 Metropolitan Opera performance of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.".
- catalog abstract "In celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Metropolitan opera, 100 singers, 7 conductors, the Met Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet performed in two separate programs on October 22, 1983.".
- catalog abstract "An American viewpoint on Newfoundland sealing. Includes chapters on the victims of the seal wars, methods of killing, a history of seal management in Canada, and protest organizations.".
- catalog abstract "Twenty-six short stories never before published in book form. Morley Callaghan at his best.".
- catalog abstract "Index to Mīmāṃsābhāṣya, by Śabarasvāmi, classical commentary on Mīmāṃsāsūtra, basic work of the Mīmāṃsā school in Hindu philosophy, by Jaimini.".
- catalog abstract "Focusing on the murders of Afro-American children in Atlanta in 1979 and 1980, Baldwin examines race relations in America and the inequities of the criminal justice system.".
- catalog abstract "Compilation of first-person accounts from journals and diaries from whaling expeditions to Davis Strait from British ports from 1824 to 1917. Includes much previously unpublished material.".
- catalog abstract "A behind-the-scenes account of television journalism.".
- catalog abstract "A successful screenwriter and actor, now under the influence of alcohol and drugs, goes on location to the filming of a movie he had written and is drawn to a former lover, an actress who has also fallen prey to drugs, alcohol, and her own emotional instability.".
- catalog abstract "For Coleridge the plot of Tom Jones was, along with that of Oedipus The King, the most perfect ever constructed. Fielding used all his art and all the craft he had amassed as a successful playwright for the eighteenth-century London stage to tell this hugely entertaining story of a foundling and how he arrives, through sexual misadventures and elaborate disasters, to claim his legitimacy, his fortune, and his true love. Describes the foundling, Tom, who grows to be athletic, charismatic, generous, and filled with "the glorious lust of doing good" but with a tendency toward dissolution. He leaves home to seek his fortune and his real identity.".
- catalog abstract "Court books and cause papers of the Court of High Commission which met in York, including the few surviving records of court proceedings of the Court which met in Canterbury.".
- catalog abstract "Seeks to liberate women from one of the most potent and convenient ways of disarming them, the myth--validaated by an exotic name, "masochism"--That they enjoy their exploitation.".
- catalog abstract "The Stanley family of England between about 1125 A.D. and the present. The family was awarded an earldom for supporting Henry VII, the Lancastrian heir to the throne, against the Yorkist King Richard III, in 1485. "With the exception of the earldom of Shrewsbury, that of Derby is today the oldest extant earldom which is not, like Surrey and Chester, held as a subsidiary title by the Crown or by a nobleman of higher rank." (p. [x]).".
- catalog abstract ""Memorializes in edited form the proceedings of a conference ... in Palo Alto, California, on July 14, 15 and 16, 1983"--Foreword.".
- catalog abstract "Tells the story of Paul Fackenheim, a Jewish prisoner at Dachau, who was released on condition that he spy for Nazi Germany in Palestine.".
- catalog abstract "This biography Includes five short stories by Ernest Hemingway.".
- catalog abstract "Verse treatise on the semantics and philosophy of Sanskrit grammar.".
- catalog abstract "Contributed articles.".
- catalog abstract "Papers presented at the National Symposium on "The Role and Significance of Literature in FLT (Foreign Language Teaching) in India", Dept. of Foreign Languages, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, 1983.".
- catalog abstract "In Satiric Inheritance: from Rabelais to Sterne Seidel sets out to undermine the ethical rationalizations for satiric action, which make the satirist a spokesman for those eager to claim moral hegemony in any given age. Most criticism of satire separates the satirist from the object of his scorn, and allies him with the rational humanism that scholars have considered their own. This alliance enables the scholar to speak both for himself and the satirist, to accuse and to exonerate with an authority which only those possessed of a bogus moral monopoly can claim. In place of the "all too easy answers about the nature of satiric action" (p. 3), Seidel substitutes the discomfiting knowledge that "the satirist is deeply implicated in satire's degenerative fictions precisely because he thrives as the chronicler of degenerative norms" (p. 4). As a result, "the satirist, having taken on a kind of monstrosity as his subject, makes something of a monster of himself" (p. 3). -- from http://www.jstor.org (June 13, 2014).".
- catalog abstract "Sacred verse tale of the Mādhvas, Vaishnava sect.".
- catalog abstract "Includes essays on A.A. Milne, Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew, Doris Lessing, Nancy Reagan, and Maureen Reagan.".
- catalog abstract "Manual, with hymns, for the worship of Baṭuka Bhairava, a manifestation of Śiva.".
- catalog abstract "History of the tribes of the Andronovo archaeological culture.".
- catalog abstract ""Report of the Special Committee on Biomedical Ethics."--T.p.".
- catalog abstract ""From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature on modernization, the author brings an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of the motivations, mechanisms, and consequences of the official Soviet commitment to female liberation, and its implications for the role of women in Soviet society today. She argues that Soviet policy was shaped less by the individualistic and libertarian concerns of nineteenth-century feminism or Marxism than by a strategy of modernization in which the transformation of women's roles was perceived by the Soviet leadership as the means of tapping a major economic and political resource. Bringing together the available data, the author analyzes the scope and limits of sexual equality in the Soviet system, and at the same time places the Soviet pattern in a broader historical and comparative perspective."--Jacket.".