| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Russkoe otkrytie Ameriki: Sbornik statei, posviashchennyi 70-letiiu akademika Nikolaia Nikolaevicha Bolkhovitinova (The Russian discovery of America: Collected articles, devoted to the seventieth birthday of the academician Nikolai Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov). Ed. by A. O. Chubarian et al. (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2002. 496 pp. ISBN 5-8243-0271-5.) In Russian and English.
This festschrift honors N. N. Bolkhovitinov, a distinguished historian of the United States and American-Russian relations. In recognition of the depth and importance of Bolkhovitinov's research, several of his monographs have been published in English, including The Beginnings of Russian-American Relations, 1775–1815 (1975) and Russia and the American Revolution (1976). Especially since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Bolkhovitinov has guided a movement of Russian Americanists away from dogmatic Marxist interpretations to a more empirical "civilizational" approach (p. 181) to the United States.	1
In celebration of Bolkhovitinov's life and work, forty scholars from Russia, the United States, Ukraine, and France contributed essays on topics ranging from sailors in the early eighteenth-century Atlantic world (Marcus Rediker) to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 (A. A. Fursenko). The contributions are arranged in three parts: the history of the United States (before the Civil War); Russia and America; and Russian America (from California to Alaska). This short review will concentrate on some of the most interesting contributions concerning Russian-American relations, the main focus of Bolkhovitinov's scholarship.	. . .

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