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Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American studies in the USSR : people's diplomacy in the Cold War

Title
Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American studies in the USSR : people's diplomacy in the Cold War / Sergei I. Zhuk.
Author
Zhuk, S. I. (Sergeĭ Ivanovich)
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

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xvii, 275 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Institutionalization of American studies in the USSR and academic exchanges -- The United States in the Soviet interpretation under Stalin : from Lev Zubok to Aleksei Efimov -- "Stalin's last generation" : Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and making a Soviet Americanist after the Second World War -- Khrushchev thaw, Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and the discovery of the origins of Russian-US relations -- The rise of Soviet Americanist : Nikolai Bolkhovitinov during the early Brezhnev era (1964-70) -- Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and academic détente, 1971-79 -- "Out of favor" : Bolkhovitinov's career and shaping of the new directions in the Soviet studies of US history, 1979-85 -- 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.
ISBN
  • 9781498551243
  • 1498551246
LCCN
  • 2017009559
  • 40027344356
OCLC
  • ocn973920411
  • 973920411
  • SCSB-8418426
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries