Title Know your enemy : the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts / David C. Engerman.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 459 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-432) and index.
Contents	Introduction: Knowing the Cold War enemy -- pt. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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.
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Subject	Cold War -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
	Cold War (1945-1989)
	United States.
	Sovietologists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Sovietologists.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Scholars -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Scholars.
	Social scientists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Social scientists.
	Political scientists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Political scientists.
	Intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Intellectuals.
	Soviet Union -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
	Soviet Union.
	Soviet Union -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Research.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	Intellectual life.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Engerman, David C., 1966- Know your enemy. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780195324860 (DLC) 2009010880 (OCoLC)316736823
ISBN	9780199717231 (electronic book)
	0199717230 (electronic book)
	9780195324860 (acid-free paper)
	0195324862 (acid-free paper)
Standard No.	9786612335587

Title Know your enemy : the rise and fall of America's Soviet experts / David C. Engerman.

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