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Know your enemy : the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts /

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 k...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Engerman, David C., 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Knowing the Cold War enemy
  • pt. 1. A field in formation
  • The wartime roots of Russian studies training
  • Social science serves the state in war and Cold War
  • Institution-building on a national scale
  • pt. 2. Growth and dispersion
  • The Soviet economy and the measuring-rod of money
  • The lost opportunities of Slavic literary studies
  • Russian history as past politics
  • The Soviet Union as a modern society
  • Soviet politics and the dynamics of totalitarianism
  • pt. 3. Crisis, conflict, and collapse
  • The dual crises of Russian studies
  • Right turn into halls of power
  • Left turn in the ivory tower
  • Perestroika and the collapse of Soviet studies
  • Epilogue: Soviet studies after the Soviet Union.