Imagining America
Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia
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Product details:
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Date of Publication 28 July 2003
- ISBN 9780742527928
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 234x155x23 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Alan M. Ball compares American social, political, and cultural influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic.
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In Imagining America, historian Alan M. Ball explores American influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic. Ball deftly illustrates how in each era Russians have approached the United States with a conflicting mix of ideas?as a land to admire from afar, to shun at all costs, to emulate as quickly as possible, or to surpass on the way to a superior society. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Ball traces the shifting Russian perceptions of American cultural, social, and political life. As he clearly demonstrates, throughout their history Russian imaginations featured a United States that political figures and intellectuals might embrace, exploit, or attack, but could not ignore.
Highly respected U.S. scholar Ball is mainly concerned with Russian attitudes and borrowings regarding U.S. technology and culture, but he also deals with Russian perceptions of the U.S. economic and political system and of American life in general. His excellent book is divided into two sections, 'The Early Soviet Period' and 'The Contemporary Era,' but it also briefly touches on the period between these two eras and flashes back occasionally to 19th-century opinions of the U.S. Ball's analysis is balanced, and he provides many useful statistics. Recommended. All levels and libraries.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Land of the Benzine Pegasus Part 3 The Early Soviet Era Chapter 4 Soviet Americanism Chapter 5 Heavenly Miracles Chapter 6 Happy Endings and Jolly Guys Chapter 7 Arch-Bourgeois Machines Chapter 8 Catch and Surpass Part 9 The Contemporary Era Chapter 10 Holy Communion at McDonald's Chapter 11 The American Model Chapter 12 Counter Strike Chapter 13 Conclusion: Gud-Bai Amerika?
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