Soviet Views on Civil Defense

Leon Gouré was born in Russia and has worked as a professional Soviet area specialist since 1949 first with the Library of Congress and for the past ten years as a Senior Staff Social Scientist with The RAND Corporation. He is a graduate of the School of International Affairs and Russian Institute of Columbia University and has a Ph.D. from Georgetown University, Washington, D. C. in political science. He coauthored a book, Two Studies in Soviet Controls, Free Press, Glencoe, Illinois, 1955, and has completed a book on The Siege of Leningrad and another on Soviet Civil Defense which will be published shortly.