{"product_id":"crossing-borders-modernity-ideology-and-culture-in-russia-and-the-soviet-union-paperback","title":"Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Russia and the Soviet Union - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael David-Fox\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossing Borders\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead strives for a theoretical and empirical middle ground as the basis for a creative and richly textured analysis.\u003cbr\u003e Discussions of Soviet modernity have tended to see the Soviet state either as an archaic holdover from the Russian past, or as merely another form of conventional modernity. David-Fox instead considers the Soviet Union in its own light-as a seismic shift from tsarist society that attracted influential visitors from the pacifist Left to the fascist Right. By reassembling Russian legacies, as he shows, the Soviet system evolved into a complex \"intelligentsia-statist\" form that introduced an array of novel agendas and practices, many embodied in the unique structures of the party-state. \u003ci\u003eCrossing Borders\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the need for a new interpretation of the Russian-Soviet historical trajectory-one that strikes a balance between the particular and the universal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael David-Fox \u003c\/b\u003eis professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and the Department of History, Georgetown University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eShowcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929. \u003c\/i\u003eHe coedited \u003ci\u003eFascination and Enmity: Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945 \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Holocaust in the East: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocal Perpetrators and Soviet Responses.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52618718413107,"sku":"9780822963677","price":96.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TU13MGFLN0pFYy8rR3dnd1FSNWVLUT09.webp?v=1761908236","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/crossing-borders-modernity-ideology-and-culture-in-russia-and-the-soviet-union-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}