05262. PUBLIC ADMINISIRATION IN THE USA AND THE USSR. Using Solzhenitsyn's The Cancer Ward and Shafriz' and Hyde's collection of readings, this paper analyzes the theory and practice of public administration in the US and the USSR. The Marxist theory of the state, law and public policy is discussed at some length, as is Max Weber's model of bureaucracy. It concludes that at least some of the differences between the Soviet and American systems may be more apparant than real. 25p., 21f., 11b.