Know Your Enemy

The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-983247-7
Verlag: OUP US

Buch, Englisch, 480 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 800 g

As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret
Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge that helped fight the Cold War and define Cold War thought. Soviet Studies became a vibrant intellectual enterprise, studying not just the Soviet threat, but Soviet society
and culture at a time when many said that these were contradictions in terms, as well as Russian history and literature. And this broad network, Engerman argues, forever changed the relationship between the government and academe, connecting the Pentagon with the ivory tower in ways that still matter today.

Zielgruppe

US foreign relations, Russian/Soviet history, intellectual history, Cold War Studies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Engerman, David C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politikberatung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Nachrichtendienste, Geheimdienste
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

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
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Engerman, David C.
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.