Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York

Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York
Author :
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Total Pages : 313
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781501758171
ISBN-13 : 1501758179
Rating : 4/5 (179 Downloads)

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 and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 313 pages. 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.


Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York Related Books

Yankees in Petrograd, Bolsheviks in New York
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Milla Fedorova
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-15 - Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press

GET EBOOK

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.
Enemy Number One
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

GET EBOOK

From Stalin's anti-American campaign to Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence policy, this book addresses the Soviet propaganda and ideology directed towards the Un
Russian/Soviet Studies in the United States, Amerikanistika in Russia
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Ivan Kurilla
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-09 - Publisher: Lexington Books

GET EBOOK

The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, a
New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: William Benton Whisenhunt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-14 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Cove
Language: en
Pages: 311
Authors: Steven Sabol
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-15 - Publisher: University Press of Colorado

GET EBOOK

The Touch of Civilization is a comparative history of the United States and Russia during their efforts to colonize and assimilate two indigenous groups of peop