New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations

William Benton Whisenhunt, Norman E. Saul

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781317425144
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

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

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Centuries
• 2 The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations
• 3 The End of the Winans Brothers’ Railroad Enterprise in Russia
• 4 In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853–1856
• 5 Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion
• 6 Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of the Perkins Claim
• 7 The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago
• 8 The Tsar’s Power Explained to America: Notes from a 1905 Homily
• 9 A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky
• 10 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
• 11 Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War: Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage
• 12 The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900–1940
• 13 Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia
• 14 Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia
• 15 Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933–1945: An Interpretation
• 16 The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958
• 17 “Academic Détente”: Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era
• 18 The United States, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story?
• Contributors
• Index