Editing Talcott Parsons (section)

===Russian Research Center===
Parsons became a member of the executive committee of the new Russian Research Center at Harvard in 1948, which had Parsons' close friend and colleague, [[Clyde Kluckhohn]], as its director. Parsons went to [[Allied-occupied Germany]] in the summer of 1948, was a contact person for the RRC, and was interested in the Russian refugees who were stranded in Germany. He happened to interview in Germany a few members of the Vlasov Army, a [[Russian Liberation Army]] that had collaborated with the Germans during the war.<ref>Jens Kaalhauge Nielsen, "The Political Orientation of Talcott Parsons: The Second World War and its Aftermath". In Roland Robertson & [[Bryan S. Turner (sociologist)|Bryan S. Turner]] (eds.) ''Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity''. London: Sage Publications, 1991.</ref> The movement was named after [[Andrey Vlasov]], a Soviet general captured by the Germans in June 1942. The Vlasov movement's ideology was a hybrid of elements and has been called "communism without Stalin", but in the [[Prague Manifesto]] (1944), it had moved toward the framework of a constitutional liberal state.<ref>Catherine Andreyev, ''Vlasov and the Russian Liberation Movement: Soviet reality and émigré theories''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.</ref>

In Germany in the summer of 1948 Parsons wrote several letters to Kluckhohn to report on his investigations.