{"product_id":"the-organizational-weapon-a-study-of-bolshevik-strategy-and-tactics-9781610272728","title":"The Organizational Weapon: A Study of Bolshevik Strategy and Tactics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Organizational Weapon \u003c\/i\u003eis a classic study of the methods, propaganda, and institutions which create infiltration and eventually cooptation of organizations from within. The study applies its theory to communist techniques, but its analysis and insights have, over the years, become extremely useful in identifying and combating such methods in jihadist cells, terrorist organizations, and political groups of many varieties, not only from the Left. Its utility is demonstrated in how it has influenced and been cited by current writers on how extremist and politically astute groups recruit and infiltrate more benign organizations to make them tools of further expansion in power and action. The book is also considered excellent social science and history, analyzing an important period in time when trade organizations, community groups, and the like became affected by Soviet encroachment and Marxist influence. Its insights, from one of the most esteemed and creative social scientists, have stood the test of time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new reprint edition from Quid Pro Books features an extensive and substantive 2014 Foreword by Martin Krygier, a senior professor of law and social theory at the law school of the University of New South Wales, and adjunct professor at Australian National University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKrygier explains several \"compelling\" contemporary reasons to consider this work: \"the world-historical significance of the movement the book analyzes; the particular combination of political understanding and engagement with theoretical sophistication which Selznick brought to his subject; the distinctive focus and character of the analysis; and its continuing significance, in relation both to enduring social problems and to the\u003ci\u003e oeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e of a distinguished and distinctive thinker. On each of these levels, this book is exemplary.\" Moreover, \"communists are not the only people with an interest in converting adherents into 'deployable agents.' Modern terrorist organizations, radically different in their goals, have a similar organizational need and ambition. ... Students of other organizations that seek to convert adherents into 'deployable agents' might well find suggestive contemporary parallels,\" Krygier notes. In sum, this book is \"far more than an ephemeral political intervention and at the same time more engaged and engaging than is common in academic work. This is one more reason among several to commend this work to a new generation of readers.\" \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart of the \u003ci\u003eClassics of the Social Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e Series from Quid Pro Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-191749\"\u003eMartin Krygier\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11110179\"\u003ePhilip Selznick\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quid Pro, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.64d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781610272728\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1610272722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL005000\"\u003ePolitical Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism \u0026amp; Socialism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Selznick (1919-2010) taught generations of law and sociology students as a professor of sociology and jurisprudence \u0026amp; social policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He was founding chair of Berkeley's Center for the Study of Law and Society. In addition to this work, his other influential books include 'TVA and the Grass Roots'; 'Law, Society and Industrial Justice'; 'Law and Society in Transition' (with Philippe Nonet); 'The Moral Commonwealth'; 'Leadership in Administration'; 'The Communitarian Persuasion'; and, in 2008, 'A Humanist Science.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quid Pro, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42656580337901,"sku":"9781610272728","price":47.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_49d417d4-76cf-4492-89ee-d27f97882548.jpg?v=1649299068","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/the-organizational-weapon-a-study-of-bolshevik-strategy-and-tactics-9781610272728","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}