ABSTRACT
Soviet Americanist's participation in the US-Soviet exchange program became the most significant part of the relaxation of international tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States during the Brezhnev era noted historian Nikolai Bolkhovitinov, one of the pioneers of American studies in the USSR. These Soviet experts in American studies, travelled to America, contributed to the real 'academic detente', bringing back home not only the new documents and literature discovered in American archives and libraries, also human contacts and fresh impressions of friendly interactions with American people. Soviet Americanists was Nikolai Sivachev, a graduate student from MGU's Department of History, began his academic career as a participant of the U.S.-Soviet student exchanges program during 1961-62. According to the official American documents, the American hosts the role of those Soviet Americanists from ISKAN, IMEMO, and other Moscow and Kiev centers, the Soviet policy analysts and the official advisers of the Soviet leadership.
