{"product_id":"know-your-enemy-the-rise-and-fall-of-americas-soviet-experts-9780195324860","title":"Know Your Enemy The Rise and Fall of Americas Soviet Experts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs World War II came to a close and the Cold War set in, the United States had precious little knowledge about its new enemy and was poorly equipped to comprehend the new global threat. How did America learn about the Soviet Union? In this book, David Engerman, an award-winning historian of American foreign policy, Russian history, and international history, shows how a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise (known as Sovietology) to understand and shape American foreign policy towards the USSR. This group brought together some of the nation''s best minds from the left, right, and center of the political spectrum, colorful individuals ranging from George Kennan and Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski to Condoleezza Rice, to historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together this network created a knowledge base that helped define, shape, and fight the Cold War. While the reputation of Sovietology has been tarnished because of ideological\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngerman deserves plaudits for an authoritative study * John Keep, Revolutionary Russia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Knowing the Cold War Enemy ; PART I: A FIELD IN FORMATION ; 1. The Wartime Roots of Soviet 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 into the Ivory Tower ; 12. Perestroika and the Collapse of Soviet Studies ; Essay on Sources","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742123426135,"sku":"9780195324860","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780195324860.jpg?v=1758380620","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/know-your-enemy-the-rise-and-fall-of-americas-soviet-experts-9780195324860","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}