[Rev.] On book publication: Popov N.P. Rossiya — Amerika: “Pryamaya svyaz”. Vospominaniya Amerikanista i Sovetologa. [Russia — America: “Direct Connection”: Memoirs o... by Boris Z. Doktorov

“…He like no other is closely acquainted with the work of leading American pollsters: George Gallup, Louis Harris, Warren Mitofsky, Mervin Field and other gurus. The study of American polling technology and public opinion on socio-political problems and electoral orientations of the population were used by the author in further work at Soviet and Russian centers for the study of public opinion, first of all – at the All-Union center for the study of public opinion (VTSIOM), created in 1988, where he was offered a job by Tatyana Zaslavskaya and Boris Grushin. …”
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