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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Engerman, David C., 1966-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Soviet Union > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Cold War > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Soviet Union > Research > United States > History > 20th century. 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. United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Knowing the Cold War enemy
pt. I. 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. II. 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. III. 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.