MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009010880
003 DLC
005 20110408083405.0
008 090312s2009 enka b 001 0deng
010 $a 2009010880
020 $a9780195324860 (acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aDK38.8$b.E54 2009
082 00 $a947.084072$222
100 1 $aEngerman, David C.,$d1966-
245 10 $aKnow your enemy :$bthe rise and fall of America's Soviet experts /$cDavid C. Engerman.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $ax, 459 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [349]-432) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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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650 0 $aCold War$xStudy and teaching (Higher)$zUnited States.
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650 0 $aSovietologists$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aScholars$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aSocial scientists$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical scientists$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aIntellectuals$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xIntellectual life$y20th century.