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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457119103321

Autore

Engerman David C. <1966->

Titolo

Know your enemy [[electronic resource] ] : the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts / / David C. Engerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-33558-8

9786612335587

0-19-971723-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (469 p. ) : ill

Disciplina

947.084072

Soggetti

Cold War - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Sovietologists - United States - History - 20th century

Scholars - United States - History - 20th century

Social scientists - United States - History - 20th century

Political scientists - United States - History - 20th century

Intellectuals - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Soviet Union Study and teaching (Higher) United States

Soviet Union Research United States History 20th century

United States Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Knowing the Cold War Enemy; PART I: A FIELD IN FORMATION; 1. The Wartime Roots of Soviet Studies Training; 2. Social Science Serves the State in War and Cold War; 3. Institution-Building on a National Scale; PART II: GROWTH AND DISPERSION; 4. The Soviet Economy and the Measuring-Rod of Money; 5. The Lost Opportunities of Slavic Literary Studies; 6. Russian History as Past Politics; 7. The Soviet Union as a Modern Society; 8. Soviet Politics and the Dynamics of Totalitarianism; PART III: CRISIS, CONFLICT, AND COLLAPSE; 9. The Dual Crises of Russian Studies; 10. Right Turn into Halls of Power; 11. Left Turn into the Ivory Tower; 12. Perestroika and the Collapse of Soviet Studies; Essay on Sources



Sommario/riassunto

As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as 'Soviet Studies' to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge.