Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR: People's Diplomacy in the Cold War
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (757 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1498551246 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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By focusing on Nikolai Bolkhovitinov—a modest, hard-working scholar who was well-regarded for his integrity by Soviet and American colleagues alike—Zhuk amplifies the ways in which large-scale political and social transformations can begin with the most quiet among us. (Denise J. Anyone wanting to understand why the Soviet Union collapsed would do well by reading this study. Sergei I. Zhuk has written an engaging and informative account of the shaping of generations of Soviet American speci
Sergei I. Zhuk is professor of East European and Russian history at Ball State University.
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.. 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. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N