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Author : Olga Peters Hasty
Release : 1988
Genre : HISTORY
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Book Rating : 431/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America Through Russian Eyes, 1874-1926 by : Olga Peters Hasty
Download or read book America Through Russian Eyes, 1874-1926 written by Olga Peters Hasty. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olga Peters Hasty
Release : 1988-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 156/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America Through Russian Eyes, 1874-1926 by : Olga Peters Hasty
Download or read book America Through Russian Eyes, 1874-1926 written by Olga Peters Hasty. This book was released on 1988-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers travel accounts by Russian writers visiting the U.S. around the turn of the century, and offers background information on each other.
Author : Milla Fedorova
Release : 2013-03-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 853/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York by : Milla Fedorova
Download or read book Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York written by Milla Fedorova. This book was released on 2013-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York examines the myth of America as the Other World at the moment of transition from the Russian to the Soviet version. The material on which Milla Fedorova bases her study comprises a curious phenomenon of the waning nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—pilgrimages to America by prominent Russian writers who then created travelogues. The writers' missions usually consisted of two parts: the physical journey, which most of the writers considered as ideologically significant, and the literary fruit of the pilgrimages. Until now, the American travelogue has not been recognized and studied as a particular kind of narration with its own canons. Arguing that the primary cultural model for Russian writers' journey to America is Dante's descent into Hell, Federova ultimately reveals how America is represented as the country of "dead souls" where objects and machines have exchanged places with people, where relations between the living and the dead are inverted.
Author : Marina L. Levitina
Release : 2015-09-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film by : Marina L. Levitina
Download or read book 'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film written by Marina L. Levitina. This book was released on 2015-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain aspects of American popular culture had a formative influence on early Soviet identity and aspirations. Traditionally, Soviet Russia and the United States between the 1920s and the 1940s are regarded as polar opposites on nearly every front. Yet American films and translated adventure fiction were warmly received in 1920s Russia and partly shaped ideals of the New Soviet Person into the 1940s. Cinema was crucial in propagating this new social hero. While open admiration of American film stars and heroes of literary fiction in the Soviet press was restricted from the late 1920s onwards, many positive heroes of Soviet Socialist Realist films in the 1930s and 1940s were partially a product of Soviet Americanism of the previous decade. Some of the new Soviet heroes in films of the 1930s and 1940s possessed traits noticeably evocative of the previously popular American film stars such as Douglas Fairbanks, Pearl White and Mary Pickford. Others cinematically represented the contemporary trope of the 'Russian American,' an ideal worker exemplifying the Stalinist marriage of 'Russian revolutionary sweep' with 'American efficiency. 'Russian Americans' in Soviet Film analyses the content, reception and underlying influences of over 60 Soviet and American films, the book explores new territory in Soviet cinema and Soviet-American cultural relations. It presents groundbreaking archival research encompassing Soviet audience surveys, Soviet film journals and reviews, memoirs and articles by Soviet filmmakers, and scripts, among other sources. The book reveals that values of optimism, technological skill, efficiency and self-reliance - perceived as quintessentially American - were incorporated into new Soviet ideals through channels of cross-cultural dissemination, resulting in cultural synthesis.
Author : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Release : 2024-02-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 231/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists by : Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Download or read book Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists written by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. This book was released on 2024-02-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors' notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.
