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

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

Sergei I. Zhuk

Lexington Books, c2017

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"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

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-270) and index

Contents of Works

  • 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 the making of a Soviet Americanist after the World War II
  • 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 (1964-1970)
  • Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and academic détente, 1971-1979
  • "Out of favor" : Bolkhovitinov's career and shaping of the new directions in the Soviet studies of US history, 1979-1985
  • Socialist modernity, Soviet Americanists, and the "epistemological revolution" of Perestroika
  • Epilogue : State business in Russian/Soviet historical perspectives on the United States from Nicholas I to Putin

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