Understanding Russia in the United States: Images and Myths, 1881-1914
Victoria Zhuravleva presented her studies of American perceptions of Russia as a multi-leveled phenomenon. Her work is a rich distillation of primary sources, which provides a revealing glimpse at how American views of Russia have evolved and/or remained consistent over time.
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Victoria Zhuravleva presented her studies of American perceptions of Russia as a multi-leveled phenomenon. Her presentation draws upon her work with diverse sources, including diplomatic and private correspondence, memoirs, diaries, travelogues, tourist guidebooks, pamphlets, American textbooks on world and European history, fiction, and press accounts (especially cartoons). This rich distillation of primary sources provides a revealing glimpse at how American views of Russia have evolved and/or remained consistent over time.
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Victoria Zhuravleva
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Kennan Institute
The Kennan Institute is the premier US center for advanced research on Russia and Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange. Read more
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