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Modernization from the other shore American intellectuals and the romance of Russian development /

Main Author: Engerman, David C., 1966-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
Physical Description: 399 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects:
Intellectuals -- United States -- Attitudes.
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945.
Russia -- Economic conditions -- 1861-1917.
Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion, American.
Russia -- Foreign public opinion, American.
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Soviet Union.
United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Russia.
Soviet Union -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
Russia -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
Table of Contents:
  • I: Autocratic Russia, lethargic Russians
  • 1. An empire of climate
  • 2. Endurance without limit
  • 3. Studying our nearest Oriental neighbor
  • II: Revolutionary Russia, instinctual Russians
  • 4. Little above the Brute
  • 5. Sheep without a shepherd
  • 6. Feeding the mute millions of Muzhiks
  • III: Modernizing Russia, backward Russians
  • 7. New society, new scholars
  • 8. The romance of economic development
  • 9. Starving itself great
  • 10. Scratch a Soviet and you'll find a Russian
  • Russian expertise in an age of social science.

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