"This collection brings together an interdisciplinary array of scholars of late socialism in the U.S.S.R. and challenges the dominant narrative of stagnation during the Brezhnev era. It demonstrates that the political and intellectual class remained ideologically committed, reco…
"Fainberg examines how American and Soviet journalists covered the Cold War and interacted with one another during a tense period of relative peace. Foreign correspondents on both sides were keen observers who aspired to understand their host country and interpret it for their h…
"Fainberg examines how American and Soviet journalists covered the Cold War and interacted with one another during a tense period of relative peace. Foreign correspondents on both sides were keen observers who aspired to understand their host country and interpret it for their h…
Introduction: Battle of words -- Making "Soviet Restons" -- The heralds of truth -- Overtake America -- In Sputnik's shadow -- Notes from the rotten West -- Reports from the backward East -- Cold War correspondents confront old and new thinking -- Conclusion: Us and them. "Fain…