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This article attempts, in the loose context of a review of Soviet scholar's R. Ulyanovsky and V. Pavlov's book Asian Dilemma A Soviet View and Myrdal's Concept, to outline some of the concepts and themes of central interest in Soviet development research, as well as to examine Swedish economist G. Myrdal's work in the light of Marxist criteria. Certain central methodological problems which arise in the course of this discussion are examined, with particular attention being paid to, on the one hand the Marxist theory of a multistructural social pattern, and on the other Myrdal's "institutional approach".

Myrdal's Dilemma and Soviet Development Studies: a review article of Ulyanov sky, R. and Pavlov, V.: Asian Dilemma: A Soviet View and Myrdal's Concept. Progress Publishers, Moscow 1973, 169 pp.

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Review Article : Myrdal's Dilemma and Soviet Development Studies

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