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“Hazard’s former colleague in his law office questioned whether any organization could endure, without ridicule, a title of AAASS.”
― Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
― Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
“For a field that would sit at the center of a vast Cold War enterprise, Soviet studies in the early twentieth century was remarkably modest, indeed a little pathetic. Samuel Harper, the one-man Russian program at the University of Chicago for some four decades after 1903, dissuaded one student from entering the field, saying it was the exclusive province of “freaks and nuts,” himself included.1”
― Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
― Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
“Students who made it to the USSR faced other obstacles, too. Richard Stites’s advisor told him that he was unfit (as a man) to write a dissertation on feminism in nineteenth-century Russia,”
― Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
― Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
