Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008
From: Vladimir Shlapentokh <shlapent@msu.edu>
Subject: a new book
The Soviet Union; Internal and External Perspectives on Soviet Society
Author(s): Vladimir Shlapentokh, Eric Shiraev, and Eero Carroll
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Contents
Introduction to Rashomon’s Tale: Perspectives on a Society from Within and
from Without
Thinkers from Overseas: How Did Western Experts Understand and Describe the
Soviet Union over its 74-year History?
Homegrown Russian Intellectuals: On the Existence of Credible and Unreliable
Internal Sources of Elite Information about Soviet Realities
A Mirror from Afar: American Public Opinion about the Soviet Union from the
1930s to the 1980s
Self-fulfilling Reflections: Soviet Public Opinion about the Homeland, in
Attitudes and Images
Conclusion and Discussion: Limits and Potentials to De-ideologizing Studies of
Foreign Countries, and Reconstructing Images of a Society Held by its Denizens.
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