Autorentext

Alan M. Ball is associate professor of history at Marquette University and the author of Russia's Last Capitalists: The Nepmen, 1921-1929 and And Now My Soul is Hardened: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930.

Klappentext

Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary journals, newspapers, films, and popular songs, Alan M. Ball compares American social, political, and cultural influence in two newborn Russian states: the young Soviet Union and the modern Russian Republic.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction: The Land of the Benzine Pegasus
Part 3 The Early Soviet Era
Chapter 4 Soviet Americanism
Chapter 5 Heavenly Miracles
Chapter 6 Happy Endings and Jolly Guys
Chapter 7 Arch-Bourgeois Machines
Chapter 8 Catch and Surpass
Part 9 The Contemporary Era
Chapter 10 Holy Communion at McDonald's
Chapter 11 The American Model
Chapter 12 Counter Strike
Chapter 13 Conclusion: Gud-Bai Amerika?