Sergei Zhuk is a professor of Russian and eastern European history at Ball State University and has just finished a visiting professorship at Columbia University. He received his first PhD (in US history) from the Institute of World History in Moscow and his second (in Russian history) from Johns Hopkins University. Zhuk is the author of the acclaimed Rock and Roll in the Rocket City (2010), Popular Culture, Identity and Soviet Youth in Dniepropetrovsk, 1959-1984 (2008) and Russia's Lost Reformation (2004), as well as numerous books in Russian.

• IntroductionChapter 1: World War II and Inventing America on the Borders of Socialist Imagination: the Origins of American Studies in the USSRChapter 2: Discovering America by Studying Russian-US RelationsChapter 3: Academic Exchanges and Soviet Americanists during the Cold WarChapter 4: Soviet Americanists and the Impact of American Cinema and Television on the Soviet UnionChapter 5: Playing American Indians and Soviet IndianistikaChapter 6: Carving Academic and National Identity of Ukrainian AmericanistsEpilogue: Perestroika and the Crisis of Soviet Amerikanistika

Sergei Zhuk is a professor of Russian and eastern European history at Ball State University and has just finished a visiting professorship at Columbia University. He received his first PhD (in US history) from the Institute of World History in Moscow and his second (in Russian history) from Johns Hopkins University. Zhuk is the author of the acclaimed Rock and Roll in the Rocket City (2010), Popular Culture, Identity and Soviet Youth in Dniepropetrovsk, 1959-1984 (2008) and Russia's Lost Reformation (2004), as well as numerous books in Russian.

• IntroductionChapter 1: World War II and Inventing America on the Borders of Socialist Imagination: the Origins of American Studies in the USSRChapter 2: Discovering America by Studying Russian-US RelationsChapter 3: Academic Exchanges and Soviet Americanists during the Cold WarChapter 4: Soviet Americanists and the Impact of American Cinema and Television on the Soviet UnionChapter 5: Playing American Indians and Soviet IndianistikaChapter 6: Carving Academic and National Identity of Ukrainian AmericanistsEpilogue: Perestroika and the Crisis of Soviet Amerikanistika

Sergei Zhuk is a professor of Russian and eastern European history at Ball State University and has just finished a visiting professorship at Columbia University. He received his first PhD (in US history) from the Institute of World History in Moscow and his second (in Russian history) from Johns Hopkins University. Zhuk is the author of the acclaimed Rock and Roll in the Rocket City (2010), Popular Culture, Identity and Soviet Youth in Dniepropetrovsk, 1959-1984 (2008) and Russia's Lost Reformation (2004), as well as numerous books in Russian.

• IntroductionChapter 1: World War II and Inventing America on the Borders of Socialist Imagination: the Origins of American Studies in the USSRChapter 2: Discovering America by Studying Russian-US RelationsChapter 3: Academic Exchanges and Soviet Americanists during the Cold WarChapter 4: Soviet Americanists and the Impact of American Cinema and Television on the Soviet UnionChapter 5: Playing American Indians and Soviet IndianistikaChapter 6: Carving Academic and National Identity of Ukrainian AmericanistsEpilogue: Perestroika and the Crisis of Soviet Amerikanistika