06009. THE FIRST CIRCLE: A PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PERSPECTIVE. A consideration of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel The First Circle, describing a special prison for scientists in Stalin's Russia. The discussion focuses on the different meanings of "public administration" and between the "Weberian" and Stalinist" models of bureaucratic administration, concludes that the differences have roots in Russian political culture. 30p. 23f. 12b.