| During the fall of 1966 and spring of 1967 I made two trips to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe for the purpose of doing research on the new socialist formation. Acknowledgments are due to the College of Arts and Sciences and the Research Council of Florida State University for underwriting these trips, and to the Peace Council of the German Democratic Republic for defraying my expenses in that country. I am also grateful for invitations to lecture on aspects of my research to colleagues at the Faculty of Philosophy at Humboldt University in East Berlin, the Institute of Philosophy in Moscow, the Faculty of Law at Charles University and the Institute of Sociology in Prague, the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb, and the Workers' University in Zrenjanin, Serbia. Through colleagues, interviews were arranged with trade union and government officials, with specialists at the Institutes of Economics in Moscow, Warsaw, Budapest, Belgrade, and Bucharest, the Institute of History in Bucharest, and the Institute of Sociology in Prague, specialists who provided valuable data on the wage and salary spread in their countries. I owe a similar debt to the Department of Sociology at the University of Havana and to the Institute of Economics in Havana for their help in my research there during 1968. |
| Several of my former graduate students read the original manuscript and offered valuable criticism. Special thanks are due to Mary Dickey, Susan Williams, Dr. Paul Shang, and Professor Jeff Burkhardt. I am also indebted for advice and editorial assistance to Dr. Ross Gandy and Deborah Hepburn, and to the Centro de Investigadores para el Pueblo (CIP) in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Finally, I wish to thank Professor Bruce McFarlane for the opportunity to discuss the central theses of this book in lectures and seminars arranged by the Department of Politics at the University of Adelaide, during the fall semester of 1979. |
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