Soviet Americana - The Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Sergei Zhuk, Sergei (Ball State University Zhuk, Zhuk Sergei
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781350130128
• ISBN: 978-1-350-13012-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Library of Modern Russia
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Oral History, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, Russia, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, International Relations, Historiography, Second World War, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Institutions and learned societies: general, c 1940 to c 1949, Biography: historical, political and military, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Institutions & learned societies: general, HISTORY / Russia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet