Friday, October 27, 2017

People's Diplomacy: A History of American Studies in the Soviet Union

John Brown [from Facebook]
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People’s Diplomacy: A History of American Studies in the Soviet Union
In 1991, there were more than 1,000 "Americanists" – experts in U.S. history and politics – working in the Soviet Union. The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, often directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the U.S. To shed light on this...
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John Brown "Bolkhovitinov initiated a U.S.-Soviet project to publish the most important archival documents on Russian-American relations. The result of his efforts was the publication of The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations, 1765–1815: Collection of Documents, editors N.N. Bashkina, N.N. Bolkhovitinov, J.H. Brown et al. (Washington, D.C., 1980). Bolkhovitinov played a major role in the compilation and preparation of the collection of documents for publication."https://www.historians.org/.../in-memoriam-nikolai-n...
Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008) | AHA
On October 1, 2008, the scholar known among his American colleagues during the Cold War as “the best…
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