1. Robert C. Tucker, ‘Communist Revolutions, National Cultures, and the Divided Nations’, Studies in Comparative Communism 7, 1974, 235–245, p. 236: ‘comparativism is built into the very structure of theorizing’.
2. Robert C. Tucker, ‘Communism and Political Culture’, Newsletter on Comparative Studies of Communism 4, 1971, 3–12, pp. 11f. Tucker has not pursued his suggestion.
3. Robert Tucker, ‘Culture, Political Culture and Communist Studies’, in Robert C. Tucker, Political Culture and Leadership in Soviet Russia: From Lenin To Gorbachev (Brighton: Wheatsheaf, 1987), p. 5. (First published in a slightly different form as Robert C. Tucker, ‘Culture, Political Culture, and Communist Society’, Political Science Quarterly 88, 1973, 173–190.)
4. A similar view was developed more or less simultaneously by Alfred Meyer, who argued that ‘Communism can be described as a deliberate and systematic attempt at culture-building’, and also recommended the study of ‘communist culture’. Alfred G. Meyer, ‘Communist Revolutions and Cultural Change’, Studies in Comparative Communism 5, 1972, 345–372, p. 365.
5. Robert Tucker, ‘Leadership and Culture in Social Movements’, in Tucker, Political Culture and Leadership, p. 20. See also the essay ‘On Revolutionary Mass-Movement Regimes’ in Robert C. Tucker, The Soviet Political Mind: Studies in Stalinism and Post-Stalin Change (London and Dunmow: Pall Mall Press, 1963).