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The Pitfalls of the Theory of Modernization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

William E. Griffith
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Professor Korbonski has written a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay with which I find myself largely in disagreement, in general and in detail. I hope that the following brief comments will indicate with what, and why, I disagree. But in spite of my disagreements I think that Professor Korbonski’s effort was well worth making. Indeed, I share his view that the study of East European politics can well profit from the study of political development and comparative politics, and indeed already has, for example, from his and Professor Janos’s work.

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Slavic Review , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1974 , pp. 246 - 252
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1974

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