This presentation covers the organizational landscape of policy knowledge production in the Soviet Union. The author discerns their institutional differences and outlines interactions that existed within. She delineates institutions that were involved in formulating foreign policy goals and how they perceived the role of the U.S. in Soviet foreign policy. This presentation also discusses whether and how Soviet discourses transformed. The author looks at the selection of topics covered by state and non-state organizations and whether they changed in light of key domestic and foreign policy events (i.e., the Geneva summit in 1955, the 20th Congress of the CPSU in 1956, etc.). This presentation was based on the materials from the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History (RGANI), but also on the materials of the Institute of International Relations and the World Economy kept in the State Public Historical Library and memoirs by Soviet policy experts (i.e. G. Arbatov, N. Cherkasov, etc.).