Russia and Germany have had a long history of significant cultural, political, and economic exchange. Despite these beneficial interactions, stereotypes of the alien Other persisted. Germans perceived Russia as a vast frontier with unlimited potential, yet infused with an "Asianness" that explained its backwardness and despotic leadership. Russians admired German advances in science, government, and philosophy, but saw their people as lifeless and obsessed with order.
<i>Fascination and Enmity</i> presents an original transnational history of the two nations during the critical era of the world wars. By examining the mutual perceptions and misperceptions within each country, the contributors reveal the psyche of the Russian-German dynamic and its use as a powerful political and cultural tool.
Through accounts of fellow travelers, POWs, war correspondents, soldiers on the front, propagandists, revolutionaries, the Comintern, and wartime and postwar occupations, the contributors analyze the kinetics of the Russian-German exchange and the perceptions drawn from these encounters. The result is a highly engaging chronicle of the complex entanglements of two world powers through the great wars of the twentieth century.
<i>Fascination and Enmity</i> presents an original transnational history of the two nations during the critical era of the world wars. By examining the mutual perceptions and misperceptions within each country, the contributors reveal the psyche of the Russian-German dynamic and its use as a powerful political and cultural tool.
Through accounts of fellow travelers, POWs, war correspondents, soldiers on the front, propagandists, revolutionaries, the Comintern, and wartime and postwar occupations, the contributors analyze the kinetics of the Russian-German exchange and the perceptions drawn from these encounters. The result is a highly engaging chronicle of the complex entanglements of two world powers through the great wars of the twentieth century.
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<b>Michael David-Fox</b> is associate professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and department of history, Georgetown University. He is the author of <i>Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921Ð1941</i> and <i>Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918Ð1929.</i>Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 318 ● ISBN 9780822978107 ● File size 2.2 MB ● Editor Michael David-Fox & Peter Holquist ● Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press ● City PIttsburgh ● Country US ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7148411 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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