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Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia

Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia

Ball, Alan M.

Paperback

General SociologyGeneral World HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 074252793X
ISBN13: 9780742527935
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Sep 1 2003
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.88 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
In Imagining America, historian Alan M. Ball explores American influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Ball deftly illustrates how in each era Russians have approached the United States with a conflicting mix of ideas-as a land to admire from afar, to shun at all costs, to emulate as quickly as possible, or to surpass on the way to a superior society. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Ball traces the shifting Russian perceptions of American cultural, social, and political life. As he clearly demonstrates, throughout their history Russian imaginations featured a United States that political figures and intellectuals might embrace, exploit, or attack, but could not ignore.

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