| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Comparative/World

I. I. Kurilla. Zaokeanskie partnery: Amerika i Rossiia v 1830–1850-e gody [Partners Across the Ocean: The United States and Russia, 1830s–1850s]. Volgograd: Volgograd State University Press. 2005. Pp. 487.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and rise of the Russian Federation as an independent state led to a revision of the traditional Marxist-Leninist/Cold War paradigm of Russian diplomatic history by a new generation of post-Soviet historians. At the same time, these young historians, whose mentality was shaped during the last decades of late socialism, preserved the best traditions of the Soviet historiography in studies of Russian-American relations, as represented by the work of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov. A good example of this combination of post-Soviet revision and the research traditions of Bolkhovitinov is Ivan I. Kurilla's book on Russian-American relations from 1832, when the United States and the Russian Empire signed a trade treaty and established relatively good political, economic, and diplomatic contacts, to 1860, a period after the Crimean War and before the American Civil War when, according to Kurilla, an estrangement of the two countries began. Following the approaches and structures of Bolkhovitinov's books on Russian-American relations, Kurilla concentrates not only on official diplomacy but also on so-called "people's diplomacy" (connections among scholars, writers, engineers from both countries), on cultural influences, and on images of both countries among Russians and Americans during the 1830s and 1850s.

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