What happened to the Soviet Union?
Subtitle: how and why American sovietologists were caught by surprise
By: Christopher I. Xenakis.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Historiography.; Soviet Union -- Research -- United States -- History.; Soviet Union -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Regime That Couldn't Change, and Other Sovietological Myths 1; title: 2. George F. Kennan, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jerry F. Hough,; title: and the Nexus of Soviet Change 23; title: 3. Breaking Free of the Totalitarianism Model: Khrushchev,Brezhnev, and American Sovietological Literature, 1974-1977 61; title: 4. Sovietology in a Funk: Neoconservatism and American Scholarship on the Soviet Union, 1978-1981 95; title: 5. Looking into a Mirror Dimly: American Soviet Experts and the Three Post-Brezhnev Successions, 1982-1985 133; title: 6. Surprised by Gorbachev: American Sovietological Literature and the Possibility of Innovative Soviet Change after 1986 171.