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Imagining America : influence and images in twentieth-century Russia / Alan M. Ball.
Van Pelt Library DK268.3 .B3128 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Alan M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soviet Union--Civilization--American influences.
- Soviet Union.
- Civilization.
- Soviet Union--Relations--United States.
- Relations.
- United States.
- United States--Relations--Soviet Union.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 309 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Summary:
- Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Alan M. Ball compares American social, political, and cultural influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic.
- Contents:
- The land of the benzine Pegasus
- Soviet Americanism
- Heavenly miracles
- Happy endings and jolly guys
- Arch-bourgeois machines
- Catch and surpass
- Holy Communion at McDonald's
- The American model
- Counterstrike
- Gud-bai Amerika?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742527921
- 074252793X
- OCLC:
- 52288305
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