Word: research
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kind of specialist is emerging in the Soviet Union: the America watcher. Though he is perhaps less interested in scholarly research than his Russia-watching counterpart at Harvard or Columbia, he wants to study his subject with the same wide-angle lens. Russia has always observed the U.S. with the help of spies and diplomats, who specialized in such vital subjects as U.S. technology, economy and weaponry. The newer America watchers are attempting to give Russia a more systematic picture of the U.S. as a complex, diverse and often contradictory nation. The view of the U.S. that results is perhaps...
Russia's ranking America watcher is probably Yuri Arbatov, head of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Science's one-year-old Institute of American Studies. From his office in a renovated 18th century mansion in Moscow, Arbatov presides over a research staff of some 50 youngish, English-speaking specialists, a growing library, and space for a prestigious, soon-to-be-installed computer. The staff is made up of economists, historians, lawyers, foreign affairs specialists and social scientists, including a demographer. Anatoly Gromyko, son of the Soviet Foreign Minister and author of a book on the Kennedy Administration...
...easily and speaks idiomatic English. He was reportedly picked for his job because he cultivated both party members (he is one) and scholars-two groups that do not always agree in Russia. Arbatov has, as he says, "done his homework" on the U.S. Currently he is doing some firsthand research by traveling in the U.S. and talking with journalists, businessmen (California's Norton Simon, Litton Industries' Charles-"Tex"-Thornton), and even U.S. Russia watchers (Columbia's Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harvard's Merle Fainsod). He participated in a discussion group of U.S. and Russian leaders...
Delphic Marxism. In the past, most nonmilitary research was collected piecemeal from various study centers. The one really systematic attempt to keep scholarly pace involved science; translated editions of U.S. technical journals were distributed regularly to Soviet specialists. The official attitude on other subjects altered two years ago, when the Communist Party Central Committee severely criticized the state of Soviet social science research. As a result of this turnabout, Russian specialists began taking a new look at dozens of U.S. phenomena-from the rebellion of youth, which has its parallels in Russia, to the glut of automobile traffic, which...
...converted in 1962 from a mediocre Catholic literary quarterly into a rampaging crusader for leftist causes. It employed highly emotional writing and skilled promotion techniques to magnify its occasional and not really fresh revelations-including covert CIA funding of the National Student Association and military-financed secret research at universities. Circulation rose to a high of about 225,000. It has been losing some $20,000 an issue, partly because of its flashy, full-color format (says Hinckle: "I hate butcher paper"). A contributing reason was the fact that some of the staff grew fond of spending too freely...