Reluctant Cold Warriors ; Economists and National Security

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Reluctant Cold Warriors
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Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction: Why bother with the writings on a defunct economy by authors now at best retired?
Part I
	1. The Origin and Structure of Sovietology
		1.1 The Cold War roots
		1.2 Cradle-​to-​grave national security funding
		1.3 The industrial organization of Sovietology
			1.3.1 Structure and conduct
			1.3.2 Reliability of results
			1.3.3 Status within economics
		1.4 Colleagues and competitors
			1.4.1 The British, outsiders, political scientists, and others
			1.4.2 Academics and government analysts
	2. The Politburo’s Holy of Holies
		2.1 A pillar of the system’s original design
		2.2 A wartime-​size peacetime military sector
			2.2.1 Official Soviet data
			2.2.2 Western estimates
			2.2.3 Trying to make sense of it all
		2.3 The defense industry
			2.3.1 A sector apart
			2.3.2 The most favored sector
			2.3.3 The most successful sector
		2.4 Mobilization preparations
		2.5 Importance and impact
Part II
	3. The Missing Sector
		3.1 How to document an absence
		3.2 Textbooks and readers
			3.2.1 Which sectors merited a chapter
			3.2.2 Applying a finer comb: index entries
		3.3 Research volumes
		3.4 Publications on the military sector proper
			3.4.1 Journal articles
			3.4.2 Books
		3.5 The user side
			3.5.1 Comparative economic systems textbooks and readers
			3.5.2 Introductory economics textbooks
		3.6 Summary
	4. Civilianizing the Objectives of the Planners
		4.1 Objectives and behavior in economics
		4.2 Who exactly were the planners?
		4.3 The Soviet account of the rulers’ objectives
			4.3.1 The validity of self-​proclaimed objectives
			4.3.2 Constitutions and planning manuals
			4.3.3 Can they be believed?
		4.4 The Sovietological account of planners’ objectives
			4.4.1 Sources: fragmentation in action
			4.4.2 Sovietology’s standard view
		4.5 Making sense of multiple objectives
		4.6 Problems with the standard view of the rulers’ objectives
		4.7 Patterns that seem to suggest production for its own sake
		4.8 Bringing the Soviet rulers back into the fold of rational actors
	5. Civilianizing Industrialization
		5.1 The standard account of industrialization
		5.2 Stalin’s account of industrialization
			5.2.1 Objectives of industrialization
			5.2.2 The role of heavy industry
		5.3 How the standard account developed
		5.4 Problems with the standard account
		5.5 The banality of military industrialization
		5.6 The real industrialization debate
		5.7 Taking socialism too seriously
		5.8 Summary
Part III
	6. The Secrecy Hypothesis
		6.1 The shape of the constraint
			6.1.1 Secrecy in Soviet society
			6.1.2 Economic information: civilian and military sectors
			6.1.3 Breaches in the wall
		6.2 The constraint was not binding
			6.2.1 Concern about secrecy and the recognition of gaps in knowledge
			6.2.2 The use of roundabout means to overcome secrecy
			6.2.3 Response to the writings on the military sector
		6.3 Direct test of the secrecy hypothesis
			6.3.1 Sovietologists versus the New York Times
			6.3.2 What an interested scholar found in Soviet publications
		6.4 Conclusion
	7. Beating Soviet Swords into Sovietological Ploughshares
		7.1 The norms of the economics profession
			7.1.1 How scholars choose research topics
			7.1.2 How Sovietology fit in
			7.1.3 Military topics out of favor with economists
			7.1.4 Dressing military buildup in fashionable civvies
		7.2 Looking for the essence of socialism
		7.3 Politics
			7.3.1 The politics and economics of science
			7.3.2 Can Sovietologists inform us of each other’s bias?
			7.3.3 Proliferation of digressions
			7.3.4 Interpretation: exculpatory incantations
		7.4 Persistence of civilianization and Soviet economic history
	8. Civilianization Elsewhere
		8.1 Writings on the German economy in the 1930s
			8.1.1 Hitler’s military economy
			8.1.2 Rearmament in the economics journals of the time
			8.1.3 Why economists neglected rearmament
		8.2 (No) violence in primitive societies
		8.3 The marginalization of military history
	Conclusion
Appendices
	Appendix 1.1    Alternative estimates of the number of Sovietologists
	Appendix 3.1  How the literature was surveyed for ­chapter 3
	Appendix 3.2 Counting index entries in books
	Appendix 3.3 Books on the Soviet military sector 199Appendix 3.4 Books on particular sectors of the Soviet economy other than external and agriculture published before 1975
	Appendix 3.5 Books on Soviet agriculture
	Appendix 3.6 Books on Soviet foreign economic relations
	Appendix 4.1 How the literature was surveyed for ­chapter 4
	Appendix 8.1 How literature was surveyed for section 8.1
Bibliography
Index