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America in the Russian Mind: Or Russian Discoveries of America
Pacific Historical Review, 1978A CONVERSATION IN THE first part of The Possessed (1870) in which Shatov tells of his adventures and sufferings in America may fairly be taken as a summary of Dostoevsky's own views of the United States. Shatov relates how, two years earlier, he and two comrades had spent the last of their money to go in an emigrant steamer and find out for themselves ...
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Russian America in Russian and American Historiography
Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2013Dawn Lea Black and Alexander Yu. Petrov, eds. and trans., Natalia Shelikhova: Russian Oligarch of Alaska Commerce. xlix + 237 pp. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1602230736. $29.95. Mitropolit Kliment (Kapalin), Russkaia Pravoslavnaia Tserkov" na Aliaske do 1917 goda. 607 pp. Moscow: OLMA Media Grupp, 2009.
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Foreign Affairs, 2001
The terrorist attacks that rocked the United States on Septem ber 11 opened a new chapter in the country's relations with the outside world. Already alliances are shifting, U.S. troops are redeploying, and policymakers are rapidly rewriting their agendas. It remains unclear just what the world will look like once the dust settles. But as we enter a new
Timothy J. Colton, Michael McFaul
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The terrorist attacks that rocked the United States on Septem ber 11 opened a new chapter in the country's relations with the outside world. Already alliances are shifting, U.S. troops are redeploying, and policymakers are rapidly rewriting their agendas. It remains unclear just what the world will look like once the dust settles. But as we enter a new
Timothy J. Colton, Michael McFaul
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Russian Tourists Discover America
Studies in Travel Writing, 2009This article examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries, tactics of translation, and experiences of multiple political and national attachments evident in texts resulting from Russo-American encounters during the 1860s and 1870s. The study focuses primarily on three talented and in their own time influential, yet today almost completely ...
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Historical Geography of Russian America
Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 1937rot, was replaced in first place by awaiting the first opportunity to re spring wheat. Since 1929, consequent turn to strictly commercial, mecvian upon the fact that the long time avized wheat farming, and thus over erage yield of spring wheat is less expand wheat acreage once mort, than that of winter wheat, the latter Severe soil blowing constitutes ...
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Russian Expansion in Siberia and America
Geographical Review, 1980IN 1812, as Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armee was nearing Moscow, on the other side of the world Collegiate Councillor Ivan Kuskov's motley band was founding Fort Ross on the coast of New Albion less than one hundred miles north of San Francisco Bay.
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The history and legacy of Russian America
Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011This article is based on the results of exploration research within the federal target program Scientific and Educational Human Resources of Innovative Russia for 2009–2013. The authors of the article undertake an attempt to generalize principal data obtained in studying the history and legacy of Russian America, to summarize the first experience of ...
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Gardening in Colonial Russian America
Ethnoarchaeology, 2011Abstract Soon after Russian fur hunters arrived in Alaska in the mid-18th century, they began gardening to supplement the limited foods they brought with them and the locally available food resources. Although published accounts of gardening become more numerous by the early 19th century, the details of such efforts in the Aleut region of southwestern ...
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