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

Includes bibliographical references (pages [341]-432) and index.

Introduction: Knowing the Cold War enemy -- The wartime roots of Russian studies training -- Social science serves the state in war and Cold War -- Institution building on a national scale -- 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 -- 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.