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"Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia" by Alan M. Ball (Repost)

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"Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia" by Alan M. Ball (Repost)

"Imagining America: Influence and Images in Twentieth-Century Russia" by Alan M. Ball
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | 2003 | ISBN: 0742527921 074252793X 9780742527935 | 325 pages | PDF | 13 MB

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
Preface
Introduction: The Land of the Benzine Pegasus
PART I: THE EARLY SOVIET PERIOD
Chapter 1 Soviet Americanism
Chapter 2 Heavenly Miracles
Chapter 3 Happy Endings and Jolly Guys
Chapter 4 Arch-Bourgeois Machines
Chapter 5 Catch and Surpass
PART II: THE CONTEMPORARY ERA
Chapter 6 Holy Communion at McDonald’s
Chapter 7 The American Model
Chapter 8 Counterstrike
Conclusion: Gud-bai Amerika?
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks

About the Author
Alan M. Ball is associate professor of history at Marquette University. He is the author of two previous books on Russian history.