Soviet Americana: The Cultural History Of Russian And Ukrainian Americanists (Library Of Modern Russia)

In 1991 there were more than 1,000 'Americanists' - experts in US history and politics - working in the Soviet Union. The community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as a large part in directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. Zhuk here 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 postwar origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia--Page 4 of cover.

• | Author: Sergei Zhuk
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Sep 19, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350130125
• | ISBN-13: 9781350130128