The Myth of the Soviet Soldier: Envisioning the “Other” in Late-Cold War American Military Training Materials
Journal: Spectrum Research Repository (Concordia University)
Year: 2017

To date, there has been an astonishing dearth of analysis on the ways in which enlisted personnel within the United States are presented with concepts of the outside world, and even less so on how this drastically differs from an American cultural zeitgeist. As Cold War ramifications continue to guide our modern contexts, this investigation looks into the split between American civilian and military representations of an ephemeral Soviet identity. This contrasting application of ethnography allo