Word: americanologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dimitri K. Simes, 31, made the unusual jump from Moscow Americanologist to Washington Kremlinologist. A Jew, he was able to emigrate in 1973 and is now director of Soviet studies at Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies...
Georgy Arbatov, director of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute and the leading Soviet Americanologist, says that for the U.S. détente was "accommodation to the new realities of the international situation, to the changing foreign and domestic conditions in which U.S. policy is being conceived and shaped . . . Before any shift to détente became possible, it was absolutely necessary that the U.S. begin to accept the idea that the earlier course of the cold war had ceased to correspond to its interests...
...sign of nervousness: four major articles on China appeared in the Soviet press last week alone. The most important one, titled "Questions Calling for a Practical Answer," was written by Georgy Arbatov, director of Moscow's U.S.A. Research Institute and widely regarded as the Kremlin's foremost Americanologist. It described the Nixon trip as "a matter of grave consequence for the Soviet people, for world socialism, for the entire international situation, for world peace...