A Cold War Creature which Sat out the War

Vladimir Kontorovich

Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, vol. 66, issue 5, 811-829

Abstract: A substantial body of literature argues that government funding motivated by the Cold War shaped (or distorted) the content of the American academic disciplines. This article tests the impact of such funding on the academic study of the Soviet economy, a small field created to help fight the Cold War. It documents the amount of attention given by researchers to the military sector of the Soviet economy, the topic of central importance for the Cold War, and finds that their publications largely ignored it. Considerations other than the interests of the sponsors determined the choice of topics in the discipline.

Date: 2014
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