William Benton Whisenhunt is Professor of History at the College of DuPage, Illinois.Norman E. Saul is Professor Emeritus of Modern Russian History at the University of Kansas.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction – William Benton Whisenhunt and Norman E. Saul1: Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries – Alexander Iu, Petrov2: The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations -- Susan Smith-Peter3. The End of the Winans Brothers Railroad Enterprise in Russia --Vladimir V. Noskov4. In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- William Benton Whisenhunt5. Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion – Ivan Kurilla6. Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of The Perkins Claim—Lee Farrow7. The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago—Pavel Tribunskiy8. The Tsar's power explained to America: Notes from a 1905 homily. -- Monica Cognolato9. A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky -- Erich Lippman10. Rediscovering the "Living Human Documents" of a Goodwill Initiative: Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914– 1918 -- Lyubov Ginzburg11. Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War:Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage -- Victoria I. Zhuravleva12. The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900-1940 -- Matthew Lee Miller13. Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia -- Kathleen S. Macfie14. Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia -- Ada Ackerman15. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933-1945. An Interpretation -- Vladimir V. Sogrin16. The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958 -- Norman E. Saul17. "Academic Détente": Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era -- Sergei I. Zhuk18. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story? -- Paul D’AnieriContributorsIndex

William Benton Whisenhunt is Professor of History at the College of DuPage, Illinois.Norman E. Saul is Professor Emeritus of Modern Russian History at the University of Kansas.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction – William Benton Whisenhunt and Norman E. Saul1: Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries – Alexander Iu, Petrov2: The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations -- Susan Smith-Peter3. The End of the Winans Brothers Railroad Enterprise in Russia --Vladimir V. Noskov4. In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- William Benton Whisenhunt5. Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion – Ivan Kurilla6. Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of The Perkins Claim—Lee Farrow7. The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago—Pavel Tribunskiy8. The Tsar's power explained to America: Notes from a 1905 homily. -- Monica Cognolato9. A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky -- Erich Lippman10. Rediscovering the "Living Human Documents" of a Goodwill Initiative: Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914– 1918 -- Lyubov Ginzburg11. Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War:Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage -- Victoria I. Zhuravleva12. The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900-1940 -- Matthew Lee Miller13. Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia -- Kathleen S. Macfie14. Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia -- Ada Ackerman15. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933-1945. An Interpretation -- Vladimir V. Sogrin16. The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958 -- Norman E. Saul17. "Academic Détente": Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era -- Sergei I. Zhuk18. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story? -- Paul D’AnieriContributorsIndex

William Benton Whisenhunt is Professor of History at the College of DuPage, Illinois.Norman E. Saul is Professor Emeritus of Modern Russian History at the University of Kansas.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction – William Benton Whisenhunt and Norman E. Saul1: Russia, the United States, and Great Britain on the Pacific Northwest at the End of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries – Alexander Iu, Petrov2: The Russian Federalist Papers: Aleksei Evstaf’ev, the War of 1812, and Russian-American Relations -- Susan Smith-Peter3. The End of the Winans Brothers Railroad Enterprise in Russia --Vladimir V. Noskov4. In Service to the Tsar: American Surgeons in the Crimean War, 1853-1856 -- William Benton Whisenhunt5. Abolition of Serfdom in Russia and American Newspaper and Journal Opinion – Ivan Kurilla6. Intrigue, Scandal, and International Diplomacy: A Reexamination of The Perkins Claim—Lee Farrow7. The Establishment of Russian Studies at the University of Chicago—Pavel Tribunskiy8. The Tsar's power explained to America: Notes from a 1905 homily. -- Monica Cognolato9. A Sick Dostoevsky and Rich, Healthy Shopkeepers: Maxim Gorky’s Critique of America via Dostoevsky -- Erich Lippman10. Rediscovering the "Living Human Documents" of a Goodwill Initiative: Letters from Russian Soldiers Cared for at the City Hospital of the American Colony in Petrograd, 1914– 1918 -- Lyubov Ginzburg11. Rethinking Russia in the United States during the First World War:Mr. Sigma’s American Voyage -- Victoria I. Zhuravleva12. The American YMCA and Russian Politics: Critics and Supporters of Socialism, 1900-1940 -- Matthew Lee Miller13. Cyril Briggs and The Crusader: Black Engagement with Soviet Russia -- Kathleen S. Macfie14. Margaret Bourke-White and Soviet Russia -- Ada Ackerman15. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the USSR, 1933-1945. An Interpretation -- Vladimir V. Sogrin16. The Program that Shattered the Iron Curtain: The Lacy-Zarubin (Eisenhower-Khrushchev) Agreement of January 1958 -- Norman E. Saul17. "Academic Détente": Soviet Americanists as Exchange Scholars during the Brezhnev Era -- Sergei I. Zhuk18. The US, Russia, and Ukraine: End of an Era or Same Old Story? -- Paul D’AnieriContributorsIndex