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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.