"Grazhdanskoe Obshestvo i Nravstvennie Tsennosti --
An Introduction to the History and Values
Underlying Civil Society in the United States"


This talk, delivered by CCSI director Holt Ruffin in Moscow last summer, is now available in Russian.

Concisely, but in considerable detail, the presentation explained the historical and moral basis for associations and "third sector" organizations in the U.S., from the Pilgrims through de Tocqueville to the present. It gave measures of the siz e of the third sector in the U.S. and outlined its importance to the process of reform and social change. For a copy of this 10-page essay po-russkii, send $3 to CCSI, requesting a copy of "Civil Society and Society’s Values" in Russian.

This article is from the May 1994 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West

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Last updated: October 8, 1996

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