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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820933603321

Autore

Engerman David C. <1966->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-19-988668-7

1-282-33558-8

9786612335587

0-19-971723-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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.