Reluctant Cold Warriors: Economists and National Security

by Vladimir Kontorovich

Scholars attribute the collapse of the Soviet Union in part to the militarization of its economy. But during the Cold War, economic studies of the USSR largely neglected the military sector of the Soviet economy-its dominant and most successful part. This is all the more puzzling in that academic study of the Soviet economy in the US was specifically created to help fight the Cold War. If the rival superpower maintained the peacetime war economy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190868120
• ISBN13: 9780190868123
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"