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Zusatztext The extraordinary range and depth of Engerman's research and the narrative arc knitting this book together from start to finish make Know Your Enemy a consummate work of scholarship and historical imagination. Engerman's critical assessment of all the diverse components within academic 'Sovietology' shatters one cliche after another. Soviet Studies never fashioned a single Cold War vision of the USSR and never served simply as an ideological arm of U.S. foreign policy-even when scholars were most closely linked with diplomatic and military operatives. Informationen zum Autor Professor of History, Brandeis University. author of Modernization from the Other Shore, winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the Akira Iriye International History Book Award, and a best book on Russia by Foreign Affairs. Klappentext The first history of the people at the center of Cold War thought and politics: America's Russia experts Zusammenfassung The first history of the people at the center of Cold War thought and politics: America's Russia experts Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Knowing the Cold War Enemy Part I: A Field in Formation 1. The Wartime Roots of Russian Studies Training 2. Social Science Serves the State in War and Cold War 3. Institution-Building on a National Scale Part II: Growth and Dispersion 4. The Soviet Economy and the Measuring-Rod of Money 5. The Lost Opportunities of Slavic Literary Studies 6. Russian History as Past Politics 7. The Soviet Union as a Modern Society 8. Soviet Politics and the Dynamics of Totalitarianism Part III: Crisis, Conflict, and Collapse 9. The Dual Crises of Russian Studies 10. Right Turn into Halls of Power 11. Left Turn in the Ivory Tower 12. Perestroika and the Collapse of Soviet Studies Epilogue: Soviet Studies after the Soviet Union Essay on Sources ...
