A Child, Not a Tool, Of the Cold War (Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts) (Book Review‪)‬

David Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts. ix + 459 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN-13 978-0195324860. $34.95. American Sovietology did not evolve out of converging interests of individual researchers, as academic fields usually do. It was centrally planned by the functionaries of large foundations, government officials, and a few university administrators whose motives are reflected in the title of this book. This unusual history contains valuable lessons for the use of the social sciences for current and future national security needs and for science policy generally.