Distant friends and intimate enemies : a history of American-Russian relations / David S. Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla, Victoria I. Zhuravleva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foglesong, David S., Author.

Kurilla, I. I. (Ivan Ivanovich), author.

Zhuravleva, V. I͡U., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign relations--Russia.

United States.

Russia--Foreign relations--United States.

Russia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 621 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to being ideological rivals, geopolitical adversaries, and demonic foils used in the construction or affirmation of their national identities. As well as examining diplomatic, economic, and military interactions between the two countries, they illuminate how filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, missionaries and political activists have admired, disparaged, lionized, envied, satirized, loved, and hated people in the other land. The book shows how the stories they told and the images they created have shaped how the two countries have understood each other from the eighteenth century to the present and how often their violent clashes have arisen from mutual misunderstanding and misrepresentations.

Contents:

From First Contacts to Fledgling Diplomatic Relations, 1607-1807

Diplomacy and Rebellions, 1807-1841

Beginning of a Friendship: Cooperation, Crisis, and Transformation, 1841-1860

Noonday of Friendship, 1861-1881

Romance and Revulsion, 1881-1901

Collision and Revolution, 1901-1905

Interаctions and Contradictions, 1906-1914

Wartime Honeymoon, 1914-1917

Revolution and Intervention, 1917-1920

From Estrangement to Engagement, 1921-1933

Hopes and Horror, 1934-1941

Allies, 1941-1945

From Alliance to Enmity, 1945-1953

Crises and Coexistence, 1953-1963

Détente, 1964-1979

From Armageddon to Accommodation, 1980-1989

Transformation and Reversion, 1989-1999

From Partners to Archenemies, 2000-2020.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Oct 2025).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-009-76143-9

1-009-76144-7

0-511-84412-3

OCLC:

1548425018