Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet leadership has of course never fully believed its own propaganda image of the American as a top-hatted, cigar-puffing Wall Street capitalist. But neither has it built up an objective store house of information on the U.S., even for scholars. An American diplomat stationed in Moscow some years ago, for example, discovered that books pertaining to the study of the U.S.-Persian relations in the famed Lenin library were catalogued under the letter I, for "In famous U.S.-Persian relations." Such a lack of the generalist's sane overview often made American society, as seen from 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, is a member specializing in U.S. foreign policy...
...Evgeny Sergeevich Shcherchnov, an economist, is scheduled to publish a study of trade policy, and a group of specialists, including Gromyko, is expected to produce a work on U.S. foreign policy doctrines and machinery. There are also plans for a regular journal, and even talk of teaming U.S. and Soviet specialists to work on joint projects...
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...
...Some Soviet thinkers have even begun to play with scenario building, the concept that Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute and others have used so effectively. Arbatov himself, however, dismisses comparisons between his group and U.S. "think tanks." As one of his assistants explained: "We are dialecticians, not formal logicians...