Know your enemy
Subtitle: the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts
By: David C. Engerman.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195324860
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Knowing the Cold War enemy; title: pt. 1. A field in formation; title: The wartime roots of Russian studies training; title: Social science serves the state in war and Cold War; title: Institution-building on a national scale; title: pt. 2. Growth and dispersion; title: The Soviet economy and the measuring-rod of money; title: The lost opportunities of Slavic literary studies; title: Russian history as past politics; title: The Soviet Union as a modern society; title: Soviet politics and the dynamics of totalitarianism; title: pt. 3. Crisis, conflict, and collapse; title: The dual crises of Russian studies; title: Right turn into halls of power; title: Left turn in the ivory tower; title: Perestroika and the collapse of Soviet studies; title: Epilogue: Soviet studies after the Soviet Union.