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Social Thought in Tsarist Russia: The Quest for a General Science of Society, 1861-1917. By Alexander Vucinich. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xi, 294 pp. $15.50.

This volume is the most recent of Professor Vucinich's efforts to present a comprehensive picture of the impact of scientific thought and the development of a rationalistic tradition in Russia. It is an encyclopedic endeavor and possesses all of the strengths and defects of such projects. While presenting interesting surveys of several schools of social thought, Professor Vucinich tends to slight the complex issues and tensions in the individual thinkers studied. Furthermore, the differences among members of a school of thought and the conflicts among contending schools are only briefly sketched. Given the quantity and quality of the materials analyzed and described, only a very astute principle of organization would have succeeded in presenting the subject. The book, unfortunately, lacks such a principle and remains a collection of loosely structured essays. The internal organization of its eight chapters appears casual. One finds in each of them a mixture of biography, intellectual history, comparative analysis, and criticisms and appreciations of the contributions of individual authors and schools to the development of scientific sociology. There is no evident principle of symmetry or balance, but Professor Vucinich faithfully adhered to the principle of inclusion stated in his introduction.