| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Aleksandr Etkind. Tolkovanie puteshestvii: Rossiia i Amerika v travelogakh i intertekstakh [Interpretation of Voyages: Russia and America in Travelogues and Intertexts]. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie. 2003. Pp. 483.
Since 1992, Russian and American historians have used many new sources to explore Russian history. Another innovation in the study of Russia has been the increased presence of Russian scholars in the United States. Aleksandr Etkind's book is the fruit of this experience and, if translated, would be of great interest to specialists in American as well as Russian history.	1
Etkind is noted for his Eros of the Impossible: A History of Psychoanalysis in Russia (1993; English translation 1997) and The Russian Flagellant: Sects, Literature and Revolution (1998), as yet untranslated. The premise of the new book is ingenuously simple: namely, that leading Russian and American thinkers referenced each other in forming their sense of self and identity. Etkind is concerned not only with Russia and America but also with the idea of democracy. He follows an eclectic rather than a prescribed outline of intellectual or political history. Thus he shows us Alexander Pushkin reading Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Tocqueville conversing with the Russian philosopher Petr Chaadaev, and James Fenimore Cooper listening to Russian aristocrats in Paris express their envy for the freedoms Americans enjoy. From this vantage point, he describes a host of interesting figures including familiar Russian Americans such as Vladimir Nabokov and Ayn Rand (Alice Rosenbaum), as well as other intellectual celebrities from John Dewey and John Maynard Keynes to Mikhail Bulgakov and Boris Pasternak.	. . .

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