Fascination and enmity
Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, Alexander M. Martin · 2012
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About the book
Russia and Germany have had a long history of significant cultural, political, and economic exchange. Despite these beneficial interactions, stereotypes of the alien Other persisted. Germans perceived Russia as a vast frontier with unlimited potential, yet infused with an Asianness that explained its backwardness and despotic leadership. Russians admired German advances in science, government, and philosophy, but saw their people as lifeless and obsessed with order. "Fascination and Enmity" presents an original transnational history of the two nations during the critical era of the world wars. By examining the mutual perceptions and misperceptions within each country, the contributors reveal the psyche of the Russian-German dynamic and its use as a powerful political and cultural tool. Through accounts of fellow travelers, POWs, war correspondents, soldiers on the front, propagandists, revolutionaries, the Comintern, and wartime and postwar occupations, the contributors analyze the kinetics of the Russian-German exchange and the perceptions drawn from these encounters. The result is a highly engaging chronicle of the complex entanglements of two world powers through the great wars of the twentieth century. "
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 309
- ISBN
- 9780822962076
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