Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR

Sergei I. Zhuk is professor of East European and Russian history at Ball State University.

• Chapter 1: Institutionalization of American Studies in the USSR and Academic ExchangesChapter 2: The United States in the Soviet Interpretation under Stalin: From Lev Zubok to Aleksei EfimovChapter 3: “Stalin’s Last Generation”: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and Making a Soviet Americanist after the Second World WarChapter 4: Khrushchev Thaw, Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and the Discovery of the Origins of Russian–US RelationsChapter 5: The Rise of Soviet Americanist: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov during the Early Brezhnev Era (1964–70) Chapter 6: Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and Academic Détente, 1971–79Chapter 7: “Out of Favor”: Bolkhovitinov’s Career and Shaping of the New Directions in the Soviet Studies of US History, 1979–85Chapter 8: Socialist Modernity, Soviet Americanists, and “Epistemological Revolution” of PerestroikaEpilogue: State Business in Russian/Soviet Historical Perspectives on the US from Nicholas I to Putin

Zhuk’s Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSRis a painstakinglyresearched, if not always carefully edited, intellectual biographyof an academic “liberal Westernizer” (158) whorose to become a leading light among Soviet scholars ofNorth American history and politics.