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Author Zhuk, S. I. (Sergeĭ Ivanovich), author.

Title Soviet Americana : the Cultural History of Russian and Ukrainian Americanists / Sergei I. Zhuk
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 323 pages) : illustrations
Series Library of modern Russia ; 6
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
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
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
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
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
Â#x80;#x98;Perestroikaâ#x80;#x99; of Ukrainian Americanists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 16, 2018)
Subject Americanists -- Soviet Union -- History
Americanists -- Russia (Federation) -- History
Americanists -- Ukraine -- History
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Americanists
Intellectual life
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- History
Russia (Federation) -- Intellectual life -- History
Ukraine -- Intellectual life -- History
Subject Russia (Federation)
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781786723031
1786723034
9781786733030
178673303X