Description
Book SynopsisThe first history of the people at the center of Cold War thought and politics: America's Russia experts
Trade ReviewThe 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. * Howard Brick, University of Michigan *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
