Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American studies in the USSR
Subtitle: people's diplomacy in the Cold War
By: Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781498551243
Subjects: Cold War; Diplomatic history; Intellectual life; Americanists; Relations; Study and teaching; Historians; Biography
Description: "This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Institutionalization of American studies in the USSR and academic exchanges; title: The United States in the Soviet interpretation under Stalin : from Lev Zubok to Aleksei Efimov; title: "Stalin's last generation" : Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and making a Soviet Americanist after the Second World War; title: Khrushchev thaw, Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and the discovery of the origins of Russian-US relations; title: The rise of Soviet Americanist : Nikolai Bolkhovitinov during the early Brezhnev era (1964-1970); title: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and academic détente, 1971-1979; title: "Out of favor" : Bolkhovitinov's career and shaping of the new directions in the Soviet studies of US history, 1979-1985; title: Socialist modernity, Soviet Americanists, and "epistemological revolution" of Perestroika; title: Epilogue : State business in Russian/Soviet historical perspectives on the United States from Nicholas I to Putin.