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1 online resource (xxv, 323 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Library of modern Russia ; 6
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Library of modern Russia ; 6.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Author Biography; Library of Modern Russia; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Amerikanistika in Soviet Knowledge Production; Historiographical Context; Sources and Structure; 1. The Cold War Context of Knowledge Production and American Studies in the USSR; Amerikanistika as Soviet Area Studies of the Cold War; The Cold War and Academic Exchanges; Soviet Institutions of American Studies during Détente; Part I The Postwar Generation |
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2. World War II and Inventing America on the Borders of Socialist Imagination: The Origins of American Studies in the USSRPostwar Images and Sounds of America; The Year 1953 and Beyond; â#x80;#x98;Trophy Filmsâ#x80;#x99; and the Genesis of Americanists in Soviet Ukraine; Conclusion; 3. Discovering America by Studying Russianâ#x80;#x93;US and Ukrainianâ#x80;#x93;Canadian Relations; Soviet Pioneer of the History of Russianâ#x80;#x93;American Relations; Cultural Influences of the Khrushchev Thaw and its Aftermath; American Discoveries of Soviet Russian Identity by a Historian of Russianâ#x80;#x93;American Relations |
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Soviet Pioneer of the History of Ukrainianâ#x80;#x93;American RelationsConclusion; Part II Détente Generation; 4. Academic Exchanges and Soviet Americanists during the Cold War; American Hosts on â#x80;#x98;Politically Influentialâ#x80;#x99; Soviet Guests; Political Conformism in Academic Détente: A Soviet Ukrainian Case; A Variety of Personal Discoveries of the Real America by Soviet Guests; Soviet â#x80;#x98;Discursiveâ#x80;#x99; Discoveries of America; Conclusion; 5. Soviet Americanists and the Impact of American Cinema and Television on the Soviet Union; The Western Goes East; Cultural Détente in Soviet Society |
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Problems of Nuclear Catastrophe and the End of DétenteTelevision, New Video Technologies and Soviet Espionage Television Series; Conclusion; Part III From Détente to Perestroika: The Last Generations of Soviet Americanists; 6. Playing American Indians and Soviet Indianistika; Yulia Averkieva, a Pioneer in Soviet Studies of Native Americans (1907â#x80;#x93;80); From Playing to Studying American Indians; Andrei Znamensky and Alexander Vashchenko: Soviet Provinceâ#x80;#x93;Centre Collaboration; Valery Tishkov: From the Russian Province to Soviet Academic Hierarchy |
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7. Carving the Academic and National Identity of Ukrainian AmericanistsFrom Rock Music Enthusiast to Social Historian of Colonial America; Arnold Shlepakov, Political Conformism and American Studies in Soviet Ukraine; Conclusion: The Rediscovery of Modernity among the Ukrainians of North America, and the Shaping of Ukrainian Identity among Americanists in Soviet Ukraine; Epilogue Perestroika and the Crisis of Soviet Amerikanistika; Vladislav Zubok and â#x80;#x98;Perestroikaâ#x80;#x99; among Young Soviet Americanists; â#x80;#x98;Envy of Moscowâ#x80;#x99; and Provincial Americanists |
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Â#x80;#x98;Perestroikaâ#x80;#x99; of Ukrainian Americanists |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Americanists -- Soviet Union -- History.
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Americanists. |
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Soviet Union. |
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History. |
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Americanists -- Russia (Federation) -- History.
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Russia (Federation) |
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Americanists -- Ukraine -- History.
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Ukraine. |
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Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- History.
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Intellectual life. |
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Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life -- History.
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Ukraine -- Intellectual life -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zhuk, Sergei I. Soviet Americana : the cultural history of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists. London, [England] ; New York : I.B. Tauris, ©2018 xxv, 323 pages 9781784539108 |
| ISBN |
9781786723031 (electronic book) |
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1786723034 (electronic book) |
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9781786733030 |
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178673303X |
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9781784539108 |
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1784539104 |
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