The “KGB People,” Soviet Americanists and Soviet-American Academic Exchanges, 1958–1985

• Sergei Zhuk ^[1]
  1. [1] Ball State University

     Ball State University

     Township of Center, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: The Soviet and post-Soviet Review, ISSN 1075-1262, Vol. 44, Nº. 2, 2017, págs. 133-167
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Using various case studies – from Oleg Kalugin to Grigorii Sevostianov and Nikolai Sivachev in Russia, and Askold Shlepakov in Ukraine, this article examines different instrumental functions of the KGB people among Soviet Americanists, specialists in the US history, politics, literature and films. It focuses on the KGB influences in the field of American studies in the Soviet Union since the beginning of Soviet-US academic exchanges programs in 1958 till the beginning of perestroika. This article is a part of the larger project about cultural and social history of Soviet Americanists during the Cold War.