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| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David C Engerman |
| OCLC Number: | 1150861792 |
| Awards: | Winner of Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize 2004 Joint winner of Akira Iriye International History Book Award 2002 Nominated for President's Book Award 2001 Nominated for Marshall Shulman Book Prize 2004 Nominated for Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize 2004 Nominated for George Louis Beer Prize 2004 Nominated for Albert J. Beveridge Award 2004 Nominated for John H. Dunning Prize 2005 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (399 pages) |
| Contents: | I: Autocratic Russia, lethargic Russians -- 1. An empire of climate -- 2. Endurance without limit -- 3. Studying our nearest Oriental neighbor -- II: Revolutionary Russia, instinctual Russians -- 4. Little above the Brute -- 5. Sheep without a shepherd -- 6. Feeding the mute millions of Muzhiks -- III: Modernizing Russia, backward Russians -- 7. New society, new scholars -- 8. The romance of economic development -- 9. Starving itself great -- 10. Scratch a Soviet and you'll find a Russian -- Russian expertise in an age of social science. |
| Responsibility: | David C. Engerman. |
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Based on extraordinary archival research, Engerman's gripping study is historical scholarship at its most impressive. -- Anders Stephanson, Columbia University David Engerman has written an original and imaginatively conceived inquiry into cultural perception as a form of social power--and moral challenge. Deftly weaving together Russian and American history, he recounts how U.S. foreign policy intellectuals and experts of all political persuasions allowed persistent cultural stereotypes and universalistic visions of the future to justify unimaginable suffering and death in Russia. This timely and important book speaks urgently not only to haunting moral questions of the century past but also to those in the present. -- Thomas Bender, New York University An original, highly stimulating, and beautifully written exploration of the cultural dimension of U.S.-Russian relations. By placing American perceptions of Russia in a broad historical and conceptual context, Engerman recaptures outlooks and frameworks that were at one time central to all serious thinking about international relations. In today's era of globalization, the problems of universalism and particularism that lie at the core of his account are every bit as relevant for us as they were to his historical protagonists. -- Frank Ninkovich, St. John's University An impressive work in a number of ways, deeply grounded in primary sources, and exceptionally well written, David Engerman's book is a treasure trove for students of Russian-American relations. -- Abbott Gleason, Brown University Readers of Mr. Engerman's book will be struck by parallels to current globalization debates between ascendant universalists and skeptical particularists. -- Bertrand M. Patenaude * Wall Street Journal * This fascinating, full-blown account of how Russia was reflected in the American mind ranges from the late 1800s, across the 1917 Revolution, and into the harsh, hopeful, tragic assault of modernization in the 1930s...Engerman digs deep into decades of published and unpublished writings by a broad spectrum of Russia experts and traces with skill their impact on government. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs * Read more...
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- Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1917-1945.
- Russia -- Economic conditions -- 1861-1917.
- Soviet Union -- Foreign public opinion, American.
- Russia -- Foreign public opinion, American.
- Intellectuals -- United States -- Attitudes.
- United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Soviet Union.
- United States -- Foreign economic relations -- Russia.
- Soviet Union -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
- Russia -- Foreign economic relations -- United States.
- Economic history.
- Intellectuals -- Attitudes.
- International economic relations.
- Public opinion, American.
- Russia.
- Soviet Union.
- United States.
