Travel of Ideas. From the History of Cultural Connections between Russia and the United States

The book, covering the events of the cultural life of Russia and the United States of different years, is aimed at expanding the Russian reader"s idea of ​​the ways of mutual enrichment of two cultures. The materials presented in it allow us to judge the movement of ideas in three areas - politics, philosophy and aesthetics. The book gives an overview of the cultural contacts of Russia and America in the first three decades after the formation of the United States.
The ideas of freedom that defeated the eighteenth century in America attracted Russian thought (Novikov, Karzhavin), and the revolutionary movements in Russia of the beginning of the twentieth century attracted the Americans who came here in 1905, and then in 1917-1918. The relationships of Russian and American literature are considered on the material of the work of Henry Toro, Ralph Emerson and Leo Tolstoy, as well as Edgar in and Dostoevsky. Some chapters are devoted to the perception of Russian literature in the United States and the influence of Tolstoy on American writers. The book also analyzes the Russian theme in the work of Salinger.
As examples of the trip of ideas in time and space, the work of Ain Rand and the Russian impressions of the American journalist William Walling are given.
The book is addressed to those who are studying Russian and American literature, as well as Americanist historians.
It will be useful to a wide range of readers interested in the cultural life of Russia and the USA of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries