IMAGINING RUSSIA; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Imagining Russia; Foundational Precepts; Implications and Interventions; 1. The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries; Gendered Russian Nationalism; Gendered American Nationalism; Russia and Russians in a U.S. Context; U.S. Foreign Policy and the Triumphalist Mythscape; 2. Freedom for Whom?Support for What?Making Feminist Sense of U.S. Russia Policy; Provisions and Objectives; Implementation; Capitalism as Freedom; Imaginaries at Work; Russia as Child/United States as Great, White Father
Russia as Student/United States as TutorRussia as Frontier/United States as Entrepreneurial Pioneer; Russia as Pathologically Ill Patient/United States as Doctor; Russia as Retrogressive Baba/United States as Responsible Superpower; Imperial Masculinity; 3. Death and the Maiden: The Representational Violence of Imperial Nostalgia; Conjuring the Ghost; Anastasia on Stage and Screen; A Reflection of U.S.-Russia Policy; Reckoning with the Ghost; 4. Crime, Corruption and Chaos Sex Trafficking and the Failure of United States Russia Policy; American Heroes; Russian Victims and Villains
With Impunity: The United States as Innocent BystanderFrom Mother Russia to Miss Russia; 5. "It's a Cold War Mentality"U.S.-Russian Relations on The West Wing; The West Wing and U.S. Political Culture; Gendered Discursive Configurations; Vassily Konanov as Boris Yeltsin: "Our Kind of Crazy"; Cold War Holdouts; Peter Chigorin as Vladimir Putin: Bartlet's Last Best Hope; Whose Cold-war Mentality?; 6. The Cultural Politics of Cold War: The International Spy Museum and the U.S. Security State; A Cold-war Museum; Atomic Secrets; The Rosenbergs as Discursive Phenomena
The Rosenbergs at the International Spy MuseumThe Origins of State-based Terror; Heterosexpionage; The Cold War as Cautionary Tale; Conclusion: Casualties of Cold War; Russia's Geopolitical Resurgence; Competing Masculinities; Obama's "Reset"; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A ; B ; C ; D ; E ; F ; G ; H ; I ; J ; K ; L ; M ; N ; O ; P ; R ; S ; T ; U ; V ; W ; Y ; Z
