The ironies of the iron curtain: The cold war and the rise of Russian studies

The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 314-344

  Engerman, David C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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