Americans Experience Russia Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present

• Main Authors: Chatterjee, Choi, Holmgren, Beth
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: American History; Cold War; Contemporary History 1945; East; Economic History; European History; Foreign public opinion, American; Journalism; Leningrad; Memory; Modern History 1750-1945; Moscow; Nuclear; Oriental; Political History; Postcolonial; Public opinion; Russia (Federation); Russians; Social & Cultural History; Soviet Union; U.S; West; Darryl Zanuck; Scarlet Empress; Vassar Students; CPUSA; Young Man; Memory; Devious; Inside Stories; Moscow; Novgorod Province; Journalism; Maksim Gorky; Maidenform Bra; Plutonium Plant; Russian Girls; Aleksandr Fursenko; Oscar De La Renta; Oriental; Bra Manufacturer; Postcolonial; West; Lev Kopelev; Leningrad; Top Secret; Mukhina; Russian Character; Violate; Cold War; Nuclear; Moscow Correspondents; Yasnaya Polyana; Federal Theatre Project; Russian High Culture; U.S; Russians; East; Soviet Union; Work Habits
• ISBN: 1138731781; 9781138731783; 0415893410; 9780415893411
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203082102

Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists envisioned, experienced, and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. While many histories of diplomatic, economic, and intellectual connections between the United States and the Soviet Union can b...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Americans Experience Russia Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the present -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Studying Our Nearest Oriental Neighbor: American Scholars and Late Imperial Russia -- Part I: Inside Stories: Utopia, Bohemia, Crucible -- 2 Hallie Flanagan and the Soviet Union: New Heaven, New Earth, New Theater -- 3 Kennan Encounters Russia, 1933-1937 -- 4 Constructing a Cold War Epic: Harrison Salisbury and the Siege of Leningrad -- Part II: Our Popular Russian Romance -- 5 The Russian Romance in American Popular Culture, 1890-1939 -- 6 Russia on Their Mind: How Hollywood Pictured the Soviet Front -- Part III: Conspicuous Consumers: Ambassadors and Donors -- 7 Another Mission to Moscow: Ida Rosenthal and Consumer Dreams -- 8 The Moscow Correspondents, Soviet Human Rights Activists, and the Problem of the Western Gift -- Part IV: Americans in the Russian Mirror -- 9 Interviewing Village Mothers-with Help from My Friends -- 10 Fear, Affluence, and the Great Plutonium Extravaganza -- Part V: Living across Cultures -- 11 An Interview with Marina Goldovskaya, a "Russian American" Filmmaker -- 12 The Search for What Might Be True: Thoughts from Inside an Era of Change -- Contributors -- Index