Beating Soviet Swords into Sovietological Ploughshares
Beating Soviet Swords into Sovietological Ploughshares
This chapter describes the influences that inclined scholars in the field to recast their subject in civilian terms. Sovietologists belonged to a small, low-prestige field of economics. They were hired and promoted by their departmental colleagues working in the other fields of economics, and stood a higher chance of being treated favorably if their research could be seen as dealing with the issues of interest for the larger discipline, such as growth and economic development.
Keywords: Sovietology, economics, professional norms, civilianization, essense of socialism, political bias, exculpatory incantations, Cold Warrior
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