Program

Research Programs: Translations

Period of Performance

9/1/1982 - 11/30/1983

Funding Totals

$10,067.00 (approved)
$10,067.00 (awarded)


Waclaw Machajski's THE MENTAL WORKER (Translation from Russian)

FAIN: RL-20297-82

Gary W Kern
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To support a scholarly translation of THE MENTAL WORKER, Waclaw Machajski's classic criticism of the Soviet state. With its theory that Marxism creates a "new class," the managerial elite, the work has made an important contribution to the history of ideas and to an understanding of the Russian revolution.