| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

Politicheskaia istoriia SShA, XVII–XX vv. (The political history of the USA, 17th to 20th centuries). By Vladimir V. Sogrin. (Moscow: Ves' Mir, 2001. 389 pp. ISBN 5-7777-0117-5.) In Russian.
Those who want to know what Russian specialists in U.S. history were saying about their subject ten years after Russia ceased to be a Marxist-Leninist state (at least in name) will find Vladimir V. Sogrin's book very interesting. The book, published in a fairly large press run, has helped the average informed Russian citizen reformulate his understanding of what the United States was like at various stages in its existence.	1
Sogrin divides U.S. political history into five stages, based upon what elements dominated the country's political elite. These stages are the colonial era up to 1770, 1770 to 1820, 1820 to 1870, 1870 to 1930, and 1930 to 2000. He sees the colonial era as an amalgamation of English political traditions and American innovations. In this period, he says, monarchical and aristocratic elements gradually lost strength as representative elements grew stronger, with the major role held by an oligarchic elite that was appointed rather than elected.	. . .

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