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Book Review
| Zaokeanskie partnery: Amerika i Rossiia v 1830–1850-e gody (Transoceanic partners: America and Russia from the 1830s through the 1850s). By Ivan I. Kurilla. (Volgograd: Volgograd State University Press, 2005. 488 pp. ISBN 5-9669-0078-7.) In Russian.
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| Given that the field of diplomatic history in the United States is, for the most part dominated by what the Russians would call noveishaia (recent) diplomatic history, it is refreshing to encounter a work of diplomatic history by a Russian historian that can fairly be categorized as firmly grounded in the past. Ivan I. Kurilla, who holds a teaching position at Volgograd State University, is one of several researchers inspired by Academician Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov to take up the study of early Russian-American relations. |
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