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9780199717231

Know Your Enemy

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  • Copyright: 2009-11-20
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic US
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Author Biography


David C. Engerman is the author of Modernization from the Other Shore, named a best book on Russia by Foreign Affairs. He is an Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents


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

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