Adventures in Russian Historical Research: Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present Tapa blanda - 2003

New. American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers… Leer más

Armonk, New York, U.S.A.: M E Sharpe Inc, 2003 Book. Fine. Trade Paperback. First Edition/First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, minor curling at corners, great copy.

M E Sharpe Inc, 2003. Paperback. New. 304 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. This work brings together the reflections of 20 specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, and the first post-Soviet decade.

Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2003. Softcover. VG. Color illus. wraps; 272 pp.; No illustrations. Features twenty essays by various authors, including "Discovering Rural Russia: A Forty-Year Odyssey" by Priscilla Roosevelt, "Cathering the Great and Rats" by John T. Alexander, "Prisoner of the Zeitgeist" by Laura Engelstein, "Post-Soviet Improvisations: Life and Work in Rural Siberia" by Golfo Alexopoulos, and more.

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