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Barbara Walker, “Fathers and Sons and the Origins of Cold War ‘Area Studies’ in the United States”

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Barbara Walker is Professor of Russian history at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has published on a broad range of historical topics in the area of Russian and Soviet intellectual life and its economic foundations, social organization and culture. More recently, she has branched out to explore the nature of expertise, specifically “information expertise,” […]