Soviet-American Academic Exchanges, 1958-1975
Author | : Robert Francis Byrnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Francis Byrnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Francis Byrnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education, Higher |
ISBN | : 9780253061072 |
Author | : Robert Francis Byrnes |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yale Richmond |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000008827 |
The U.S.-USSR Cultural Agreement signed at the Geneva summit in 1985 signalled the resumption of a broad range of cultural exchanges suspended in 1980 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Mr. Richmond describes the history of the various areas of exchange—in the performing arts, popular media, academia, public diplomacy, science and technology
Author | : Yale Richmond |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2007-08-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780271046679 |
Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes—and among them were more than a few KGB officers. They came, they saw, they were conquered, and the Soviet Union would never again be the same. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War describes how these exchange programs (which brought an even larger number of Americans to the Soviet Union) raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changes that prepared the way for Gorbachev's glasnost, perestroika, and the end of the Cold War. This study is based upon interviews with Russian and American participants as well as the personal experiences of the author and others who were involved in or administered such exchanges. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War demonstrates that the best policy to pursue with countries we disagree with is not isolation but engagement.
Author | : Yale Richmond |
Publisher | : Westview Press |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sergei I. Zhuk |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2020-07-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498551254 |
This study is an intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Soviet historian who was a pioneering scholar of US history and US–Russian relations. Alongside the personal history of Bolkhovitinov, this study also examines the broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. Using archival documents, numerous studies by Russian and Ukrainian Americanists, various periodicals, personal correspondence, diaries, and more than one hundred interviews, it demonstrates how concepts, genealogies, and images of modernity shaped a national self-perception of the intellectual elites in both nations during the Cold War.
Author | : Sergei Zhuk |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178673303X |
The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.
Author | : Andrew Zangwill |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2021-01-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0192640550 |
A Mind Over Matter is a biography of the Nobel-prize winner Philip W. Anderson, a person widely regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential physicists of the second half of the twentieth century. Anderson (1923-2020) was a theoretician who specialized in the physics of matter, including window glass and metals, magnets and semiconductors, liquid crystals and superconductors. More than any other single person, Anderson transformed the patchwork subject of solid-state physics into the deep, subtle, and coherent discipline known today as condensed matter physics. Among his many world-class research achievements, Anderson discovered an aspect of wave physics that had been missed by all previous scientists going back to Isaac Newton. He became a public figure when he testified before Congress to oppose its funding of an expensive project intended exclusively for particle physics research. Over the years, he published many articles designed to influence a broad audience about issues where science impacted public policy and culture. Anderson grew up in the American mid-west, was educated at Harvard, and rose to the pinnacle of his profession during the first decade of his thirty-five career as a theoretical physicist at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Almost uniquely, he spent many years working half-time as a professor at the University of Cambridge and at Princeton University. The outspoken Anderson enjoyed broad influence outside of physics when he helped develop and champion the concepts of emergence and complexity as organizing principles to help attack very difficult problems in technically challenging disciplines.
Author | : David C. Engerman |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2009-11-20 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195324862 |
"As World War II Ended, few Americans in government or academia knew much about the Soviet Union. It was, as Winston Churchill had famously noted, "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." To address this dangerous gap in knowledge, as David C. Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies." "Bringing together iconoclasts, geniuses, lone wolves, and careerists to analyze an entire nation and its ruling ideas, Soviet Studies attracted great minds from the left, right, and center. Among them are controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes.Together they created the knowledge that helped fight the Cold War and define Cold War thought. Ranging from the end of World War II to the collapse of the USSR in 1991, Know Your Enemy shows that Soviet Studies became a vibrant intellectual enterprise, studying not just the Soviet threat, but Soviet society and culture, as well as Russian history and literature." --Book Jacket.