Reluctant cold warriors : economists and national security / Vladimir Kontorovich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kontorovich, Vladimir, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soviet Union--Economic conditions.

Soviet Union.

Cold War (1945-1989).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Summary:

During the Cold War, Western economic studies of the USSR neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy. Were economic Sovietologists under political pressure, and if so, in what direction? This book has broad relevance for national security uses of social science research today.--Adapted from dust jacket.

Contents:

Why bother with the writings on a defunct economy by authors now at best retired?

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-086814-7

0-19-086815-5

0-19-086813-9