Americans Experience Russia: Encountering the Enigma, 1917 to the Present - Hardcover
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Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their 'Russian experience, ' this volume closely analyzes these texts, locates them in their sociopolitical context, and gauges how their producers' profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality.
Choi Chatterjee is Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. She is the author of Celebrating Women: Gender, Festival Culture and Bolshevik Ideology, 1910-1939 (2002), and co-author of the volume, The Twentieth Century: A Retrospective (2002). She is currently working on a history of American Communist women and their formative experiences in the Soviet Union.
Beth Holmgren is Professor and Chair of Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Duke University. She has recently published a cultural biography of the great nineteenth-century Polish/American actress, Starring Madame Modjeska: On Tour in Poland and America (2012). She is currently working on a history of the interwar literary cabaret in Poland.
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