In 1991, there were more than 1,000 "Americanists" – experts in U.S. history and politics – working in the Soviet Union. The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in la
This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930–2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia–US relations, also examines broader social, cult
How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essentially closed to outsiders and heavily policed by the KGB?
A Ukrainian native and Soviet historian, Zhuck (history, Ball State U.) examines the origins and evolution of the theology and religious practices of radical peasant sects, and their contribution to a
