Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
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"The extraordinary range and depth of Engerman's research and the narrative arc knitting this book together from start to finish makeKnow Your Enemya consummate work of scholarship and historical imagination. Engerman's critical assessment of all the diverse components within academic 'Sovietology' shatters one cliché after another. Soviet Studies never fashioned a single Cold War vision of the USSR and never served simply as an ideological arm of U.S. foreign policy-even when scholars were most closely linked with diplomatic and military operatives."--Howard Brick, University of Michigan"Those in and out of the field of Soviet Studies will find genuine revelations inKnow Your Enemy. Engerman combines thorough research with a firm footing in the sociology of knowledge of the post-World War II world in this remarkable story of the U.S.'s most successful area studies enterprise. The author sensibly and dispassionately navigates the reader through the maelstrom of conflicts and controversies that beset the field and is practitioners from the Second World War until the fall of the Soviet Union."--Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University"The book treats the interaction between U.S. politics and scholarship on the USSR with a depth and subtlety unmatched by previous writers...Know Your Enemyis based on a sophisticated knowledge of postwar American scholarship on the Soviet Union in five academic disciplines- history, literary studies, economics, socioloy, and political science... Anyone with a serious interest in the study of the Soviet Union should read it closely and ponder its lessons." --Journal of Cold War Studies"Looking at both people and institutions, David Engerman has written the most complete and informative account of the rise and fall of Russian/Soviet studies. Sovietology arose out of world war and Cold War, but Engerman demonstrates that rather than simply ideologically driven, this scholarly field contained a variety of voices that contested with one another to influence colleagues, the government, and the public. The fate of the field, however, was intimately tied to the global conflict with America's adversary, and when Soviet socialism collapsed, Sovietology disappeared along with it. Yet the contours of understanding a distant and little known rival continue to influence new generations still perplexed by that part of the world."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author ofThe Soviet Experiment"In his excellent history of Cold War Sovietology, which is solidly grounded in interviews and more than 100 archival collections, David Engerman has fashioned an important institutional and intellectual history of its academic dimensions. This clearly argued, fair-minded, and very illuminating volume reveals more interesting individuals and a more complicated story (as archives always do) than the oft repeated commonplaces about this history have revealed."--Thomas Bender, author ofA Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History"[D]eeply researched new book."--Evan R. Goldstein,The Chronicle Review"[E]ngrossing." --Wall Street Journal"[F]ascinating history." -- Robert Legvold,Foreign Affairs"Deeply researched, well-written, this is an important chronicle that explains much about how government and academia still interact, and it should be read not just byRussophiles, but by anyone interested in new academic initiatives to focus on 'Islamic Studies.'"--Paul E. Richardson,Russian Life"[An] essential book for any student of the former Soviet Union-and anyone who wants to understand how scholarship is made when it is intertwined with national security concerns."--William W. Finan Jr.,Current History"In writing this very readable account of the rise and fall of Soviet Studies in teh United States, Engerman embodies the very type of scholar that might have, in greater numbers, saved the field...Know Your Enemyproves to be a good example of how scholars in the humanities can use their substantial research and teaching skills to combine a rigorous scholarly analysis of a subject with an engaging text in order to reach a wide and varied readership." --Belles Lettres"It is a fascinating story, filled with colorful, outsized personalities from various walks of life, and Engerman tells it well, in clear and economical prose and with a keen eye for the telling anecdote and vivid quote. ...[A] penetrating investigation of the complex relationship between national security and intellectual life in Cold War America." --Journal of American History"An exciting odyssey into Cold War Sovietology." --Slavic Review"A work of remarkable breadth and depth...Know Your Enemybrings together institutional and intellectual history to add fresh insights to the field of Cold War Studies...This important book brings back into view the problematic role of the academy at the intersection of scholarship, epistemology, and national security."--Reviews in American HistoryDescription
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"The extraordinary range and depth of Engerman's research and the narrative arc knitting this book together from start to finish makeKnow Your Enemya consummate work of scholarship and historical imagination. Engerman's critical assessment of all the diverse components within academic 'Sovietology' shatters one cliché after another. Soviet Studies never fashioned a single Cold War vision of the USSR and never served simply as an ideological arm of U.S. foreign policy-even when scholars were most closely linked with diplomatic and military operatives."--Howard Brick, University of Michigan"Those in and out of the field of Soviet Studies will find genuine revelations inKnow Your Enemy. Engerman combines thorough research with a firm footing in the sociology of knowledge of the post-World War II world in this remarkable story of the U.S.'s most successful area studies enterprise. The author sensibly and dispassionately navigates the reader through the maelstrom of conflicts and controversies that beset the field and is practitioners from the Second World War until the fall of the Soviet Union."--Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University"The book treats the interaction between U.S. politics and scholarship on the USSR with a depth and subtlety unmatched by previous writers...Know Your Enemyis based on a sophisticated knowledge of postwar American scholarship on the Soviet Union in five academic disciplines- history, literary studies, economics, socioloy, and political science... Anyone with a serious interest in the study of the Soviet Union should read it closely and ponder its lessons." --Journal of Cold War Studies"Looking at both people and institutions, David Engerman has written the most complete and informative account of the rise and fall of Russian/Soviet studies. Sovietology arose out of world war and Cold War, but Engerman demonstrates that rather than simply ideologically driven, this scholarly field contained a variety of voices that contested with one another to influence colleagues, the government, and the public. The fate of the field, however, was intimately tied to the global conflict with America's adversary, and when Soviet socialism collapsed, Sovietology disappeared along with it. Yet the contours of understanding a distant and little known rival continue to influence new generations still perplexed by that part of the world."--Ronald Grigor Suny, author ofThe Soviet Experiment"In his excellent history of Cold War Sovietology, which is solidly grounded in interviews and more than 100 archival collections, David Engerman has fashioned an important institutional and intellectual history of its academic dimensions. This clearly argued, fair-minded, and very illuminating volume reveals more interesting individuals and a more complicated story (as archives always do) than the oft repeated commonplaces about this history have revealed."--Thomas Bender, author ofA Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History"[D]eeply researched new book."--Evan R. Goldstein,The Chronicle Review"[E]ngrossing." --Wall Street Journal"[F]ascinating history." -- Robert Legvold,Foreign Affairs"Deeply researched, well-written, this is an important chronicle that explains much about how government and academia still interact, and it should be read not just byRussophiles, but by anyone interested in new academic initiatives to focus on 'Islamic Studies.'"--Paul E. Richardson,Russian Life"[An] essential book for any student of the former Soviet Union-and anyone who wants to understand how scholarship is made when it is intertwined with national security concerns."--William W. Finan Jr.,Current History"In writing this very readable account of the rise and fall of Soviet Studies in teh United States, Engerman embodies the very type of scholar that might have, in greater numbers, saved the field...Know Your Enemyproves to be a good example of how scholars in the humanities can use their substantial research and teaching skills to combine a rigorous scholarly analysis of a subject with an engaging text in order to reach a wide and varied readership." --Belles Lettres"It is a fascinating story, filled with colorful, outsized personalities from various walks of life, and Engerman tells it well, in clear and economical prose and with a keen eye for the telling anecdote and vivid quote. ...[A] penetrating investigation of the complex relationship between national security and intellectual life in Cold War America." --Journal of American History"An exciting odyssey into Cold War Sovietology." --Slavic Review"A work of remarkable breadth and depth...Know Your Enemybrings together institutional and intellectual history to add fresh insights to the field of Cold War Studies...This important book brings back into view the problematic role of the academy at the intersection of scholarship, epistemology, and national security."--Reviews in American HistoryDescription
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