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STEPHEN WHITE is Lecturer in Politics and Member of the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and the University of Glasgow. He has made several trips to the Soviet Union: as a British Council exchange scholar at Moscow State University (1970-1971), on faculty exchange at the University of Leningrad (1975), and again in Leningrad (March 1977), where he completed research for his article in this issue. Dr. White is the author of The USSR: Portrait of a Super-Power and a study of British-Soviet relations in the early 1920s (both forthcoming); he has published articles in such journals as Soviet Studies, Slavic Review, Government and Opposition, Newsletter on Comparative Studies of Communism, Journal of Contemporary History, and British Journal of Political Science. He is currently working on a booklength study of political culture and Soviet politics.