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Know Your Enemy - The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts (Paperback)
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Know Your Enemy - The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts (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.
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