ABSTRACT
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|16 pages
The Russian Federalist Papers
Aleksei Evstaf'ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations
chapter 6|14 pages
Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy
A Reexamination of the Perkins Claim
chapter 9|15 pages
A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers
Maxim Gorky's Critique of America via Dostoevsky
chapter 10|16 pages
Rediscovering the “Living Human Documents” of a Goodwill Initiative
Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914–1918
chapter 11|18 pages
Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War
Mr. Sigma's American Voyage
chapter 12|17 pages
The American YMCA and Russian Politics
Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900–1940
chapter 16|11 pages
The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain
The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958
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chapter 17|21 pages
“Academic Détente”
Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era
