Soviet Agricultural Trade Unions 1917–70

The only study of its kind in English, this book examines the Soviet view of the role and function of agricultural trade unions, describes their organization, and analyses the composition of their membership and the political purposes reflected by changes in membership.

PETER J. POTICHNYJ studied in the Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and the United States, and received a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia in 1966. He is co-author, with Grey Hodnett, of The Ukraine and the Czechoslovak Crisis and edited On the Current Situation in the Ukraine. At present he is associate professor of political science and chairman of an interdepartmental committee on communist and East European affairs at McMaster University.