Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521111058)

This bold, sweeping history of the turbulent American-Russian relationship is unique in being written jointly by American and Russian authors. David Foglesong, Ivan Kurilla and Victoria Zhuravleva together reveal how and why America and Russia shifted from being warm friends and even tacit allies to being ideological rivals, geopolitical adversaries, and demonic foils used in the construction or affirmation of their national identities. As well as examining diplomatic, economic, and military interactions between the two countries, they illuminate how filmmakers, cartoonists, writers, missionaries and political activists have admired, disparaged, lionized, envied, satirized, loved, and hated people in the other land. The book shows how the stories they told and the images they created have shaped how the two countries have understood each other from the eighteenth century to the present and how often their violent clashes have arisen from mutual misunderstanding and misrepresentations.

Author: David S. Foglesong,Ivan Kurilla,Victoria I. Zhuravleva
ISBN-10: 0521111056
ISBN-13: 9780521111058
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2025
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.90w x 1.80d