Know your enemy

Titel: Know your enemy : the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts / David C. Engerman
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford ˜[u.a.]œ : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009
Umfang: X, 459 S. : Ill.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780195324860 ; 0195324862
  • Abbreviations
  • p. ix
  • Introduction: Knowing the Cold War Enemy
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • A Field in Formation
  • 1
  • The Wartime Roots of Russian Studies Training
  • p. 13
  • 2
  • Social Science Serves the State in War and Cold War
  • p. 43
  • 3
  • Institution Building on a National Scale
  • p. 71
  • Part II
  • Growth and Dispersion
  • 4
  • The Soviet Economy and the Measuring Rod of Money
  • p. 97
  • 5
  • The Lost Opportunities of Slavic Literary Studies
  • p. 129
  • 6
  • Russian History as Past Politics
  • p. 153
  • 7
  • The Soviet Union as a Modern Society
  • p. 180
  • 8
  • Soviet Politics and the Dynamics of Totalitarianism
  • p. 206
  • Part III
  • Crisis, Conflict,and Collapse
  • 9
  • The Dual Crises of Russian Studies
  • p. 235
  • 10
  • Right Turn into the Halls of Power
  • p. 261
  • 11
  • Left Turn in the Ivory Tower
  • p. 286
  • 12
  • Perestroika and the Collapse of Soviet Studies
  • p. 309
  • Epilogue: Soviet Studies after the Soviet Union
  • p. 333
  • Essay on Sources
  • p. 341
  • Notes
  • p. 349
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. 433
  • List of Illustration Credits
  • p. 437
  • Index
  • p. 439