Sergei I Zhuk: 4 books
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Mutual Representations in Academic Projects
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests...
by Kate Brown, Dominic Boyer, Robert Edelman
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
What did it mean to be a Soviet citizen in the 1970s and 1980s? How can we explain the liberalization that preceded the collapse of the USSR? This period in Soviet history is often depicted as stagnant with stultified institutions and the oppression of socialist citizens. However, the socialist state...
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War. Drawing from recent theories on youth subcultures, this collection of essays considers official attempts to accommodate and contain jazz, rock-and-roll,...
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
People's Diplomacy in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
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...