Sergei I. Zhuk

Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR (eBook, ePUB)

People's Diplomacy in the Cold War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498551250
• Artikelnr.: 48789076

Autorenporträt

Sergei I. Zhuk is professor of history at Ball State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Institutionalization of American Studies in the USSR and
Academic Exchanges Chapter 2: The United States in the Soviet
Interpretation under Stalin: From Lev Zubok to Aleksei Efimov Chapter 3:
"Stalin's Last Generation": Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and Making a Soviet
Americanist after the Second World War Chapter 4: Khrushchev Thaw, Nikolai
Bolkhovitinov and the Discovery of the Origins of Russian-US Relations
Chapter 5: The Rise of Soviet Americanist: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov during the
Early Brezhnev Era (1964-70) Chapter 6: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and Academic
Détente, 1971-79 Chapter 7: "Out of Favor": Bolkhovitinov's Career and
Shaping of the New Directions in the Soviet Studies of US History, 1979-85
Chapter 8: Socialist Modernity, Soviet Americanists, and "Epistemological
Revolution" of Perestroika Epilogue: State Business in Russian/Soviet
Historical Perspectives on the US from Nicholas I to Putin