American Yearbook 2007

Contents

  • Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Nikolaevich Bolkhovitinov

HISTORY OF USA

  • S.A. Korotkova Betsy Ross’s Flag
  • M.A. Filimonova “The Sixth Pillar”: The Ratification of the Constitution of 1787 in Massachusetts
  • S.A. Isayev John Taylor as Political Philosopher
  • L.M. Troitskaia The USA as Seen by Continental European Travelers (Materials of “The North American Review”, 1815–1850)
  • M.M. Sirotinskaia Herman Melville and the “Young America” in 1840s
  • T.V. Alentieva “Times’ River” of William Cullen Briant: journalism, policy, poetry
  • G.P. Kuropiatnik The Rise of the Political Influence and Power of the American Union League, with the Special Attention to Its Campaign Activities in 1863 & 1864
  • Y.N. Rogulev Industrial Democracy in the US: Problems of History and its Meaning for the Russia

THE U.S. UNIVERSITY LIFE

  • I.K. Koriakova The Individual Experience of Teaching History to the American Students (the Spring Semester in the Maryville College, USA)
  • O.Yu. Antsyferova Social and Cultural Context of American University Novel: Against the Challenges of Stereotypization

RETROSPECTION

  • V.A. Koleneko Constantin Balmont and America in the Beginning of XX Century
  • C. Balmont Deux mots sur l'Amérique. Notes de voyage (Text in Russian and in French)

AMERICA AND RUSSIA

  • I.M. Suponitskaya Russians and Americans on the Frontier: Colonization of Siberia and the West
  • A.Iu. Petrov To the question of the new documents on the history of the USA and Russian-American relation in the Crimean archives and libraries.
  • S.V. Listikov President W. Wilson, anti-Bolshevik Russians, and the Prinkipo Conference
  • V.V. Pozniakov Soviet Scientific and Industrial Intelligence in the United States, 1939–1945

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  • N.V. Kurkov Russian Grand Opera Company of conductor M.M. Fiveiskii in America, 1920s
  • I.K. Koriakova The U.S. Trade Unions’ Struggle for Higher Wages, late 1945-early 1946
  • S.N. Belevtseva Evolution of Strategy of “Distribution of Democracy” to the American Foreign Policy in the End 1980 – the Beginning of 1990th Years: the USSR in Foreign Policy Plans of the USA George Bush Senoir’s During Presidency

HISTORY OF CANADA

  • V.A. Koleneko The Problem of Protection of Fur Seals in the Russian-Canadian Relations at the End of 19th – the Beginning 20th Centuries
  • Etienne Berthold (Québec) La construction d’une référence intellectuelle dans une petite société nord-américaine : la pensée de Fernand Dumont et les sciences sociales au Québec. Translated from French by V. Koleneko
  • I.A. Sokov The Canadian Policy Concerning Mexico: a History and Contemporaries Approaches within the Framework of North American Integration

LATIN AMERICA’S HISTORY

  • V.P. Kazakov Catholics and Liberals in Argentina’s History in 1880s

BOOK REVIEWS

  • CANADIAN YEARBOOK. Issue 11. Moscow: RASC, 2007. Issue 12. Moscow: RASC, 2008 (L.M. Troitskaia)
  • America: Word, Image, Destiny: Proceedings Devoted to the Memory V.I. Iatsenko / Eds. O.Iu. Antsyferova and N.L. Ermolaeva. Ivanovo, 2008. (O. Polovinkina)

ACADEMIC EVENTS

  • Information on International Conference on Bicentennial Anniversary of the Russian-American Relations, 8–19 November 2007

JUBILEYS

  • M.S. Al’perovich

IN MEMORIAM

  • A.A. Fursenko

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Russian Publications on the US and Canadian History, 2007–2008 (comp. by T. Yu. Lavrent’eva)