Part I. Sovietology and the Soviet military power -- The origin and structure of Sovietology -- The politburo's holy of holies -- Part II. Soviet military power in the Sovietological mirror -- The missing sector -- Civilianizing the objectives of the planners -- Civilianizing industrialization -- Part III. Why government money could not buy economists' love -- The secrecy hypothesis -- Beating Soviet swords into Sovietological ploughshares -- Civilianization elsewhere
Summary
The academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was founded to help fight the Cold War. Vladimir Kontorovich evaluates how well the new field fulfilled this task, and shows that it largely neglected the military sector, which underpinned the Soviet Cold War effort. Professional norms of economics and political pressures drove researchers to ignore the priorities of their government sponsors and to fundamentally misinterpret their subject
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 6, 2020)
