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.
Introduction: Knowing the Cold War Enemy
Part I: A Field in Formation
1. The Wartime Roots of Russian Studies Training
2. Social Science Serves the State in War and Cold War
3. Institution-Building on a National Scale
Part II: Growth and Dispersion
4. The Soviet Economy and the Measuring-Rod of Money
5. The Lost Opportunities of Slavic Literary Studies
6. Russian History as Past Politics
7. The Soviet Union as a Modern Society
8. Soviet Politics and the Dynamics of Totalitarianism
Part III: Crisis, Conflict, and Collapse
9. The Dual Crises of Russian Studies
10. Right Turn into Halls of Power
11. Left Turn in the Ivory Tower
12. Perestroika and the Collapse of Soviet Studies
Epilogue: Soviet Studies after the Soviet Union
Essay on Sources
