A01=David C. Engerman
Author_David C. Engerman
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Product details
- ISBN 9780199832477
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 234 x 155mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
