Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Title | Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Kurilla |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2015-12-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498517994 |
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests were typically determined by the political and social debates in scholars’ native countries. In this book, leading Russian and American scholars analyze the problems arising from these intersections of academic, political, and sociocultural contexts and the implicit biases they entail. The book is divided into two parts, the first being a historical overview of past configurations of the interrelationship between fields and agendas, and the second covering the role of institutionalized area studies in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.In both parts the role of the “human factor” in the study of mutual representations is elucidating.
Russia and the United States
Title | Russia and the United States PDF eBook |
Author | Nikolai V. Sivachev |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1980-05-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226761503 |
Russia and the United States—an account of American-Russian relations written for an American audience by Soviet historians—represents a novel venture for both scholarship and publishing. Its often startling perspective on American foreign policy is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the increasingly troubled relations between the two nations. Sivachev and Yakolev trace the course of the U.S.-Russian relations from the years preceding the American Revolution to the 1970s, when human rights issues began to cause friction. Those relations, the authors believe, were characterized by America's repeated failure to take advantage of opportunities to improve them. Recognizing the controversial nature of the book, Sivachev said in an interview with the New York Times: "We did not set out to please the American reader, nor did the University of Chicago Press ask us to. On the contrary, they recommended that we should feel free to present our own views." "Scholars and students of American foreign policy . . . are likely to be alternatively interested, intrigued, angered, and sometimes illuminated by some of the interpretations found in this work."—Perspective "An American reader should not prejudge this book as simply another dreary contribution to the rhetoric of Soviet propaganda. It is more than this. The book is an expression of a view of the world that is truly and strikingly different from an American one and it is important to understand that it is a theory of reality that is shared by most, if not all, Soviet intellectuals who study America and its foreign policy. It is not enough simply to establish the inaccuracies and misrepresentations contained in such a view. One must go further and understand that such a view of reality is sincerely deeply held and that it is a part of a larger belief system that gives the authors' scholarly work coherence and meaning."—Boston Sunday Globe
Soviet Americana
Title | Soviet Americana PDF eBook |
Author | Sergei Zhuk |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2018-01-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 178673303X |
The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.
Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States
Title | Russian and Soviet Studies in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | S. Frederick Starr |
Publisher | |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Russian language |
ISBN |
George F. Kennan on Russian Society and U.S.-Soviet Relations
Title | George F. Kennan on Russian Society and U.S.-Soviet Relations PDF eBook |
Author | George Frost Kennan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Soviet Union |
ISBN |
The United States, Russia, and Russian-America
Title | The United States, Russia, and Russian-America PDF eBook |
Author | Howard I. Kushner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Alaska |
ISBN |
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
Title | Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR PDF eBook |
Author | Sergei I. Zhuk |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-07-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1498551254 |
This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.