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Book Condition: As New
Jacket condition: near fine
ISBN: 0801565006 / 9780801565007
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Greece
About Item: Hawthorn Books, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. As New/near fine. A new hardcover with near fine DJ. 1st ed. Archer sees Soviet-American relations as essentially a conflict between grass roots friendship and official suspicion. As he shows here, Russian admiration for American society goes back a long way: Poor Richard's Almanack went through six Russian editions; Tsar Alexander II felt a kinship for Lincoln (though he criticized him for not giving land to freed slaves); the Decembrists modeled their proposed constitution after our American one; and Soviet leaders, including Lenin, have sought to copy America's industrial efficiency and innovative technology. In fact, the earlier chapters of this narrative demonstrate that very little is new in Russian-American relationships; in the 1830's there was a campaign to rescind our commercial treaty in order to pressure Russia into giving exit permits to the Jews, and our belated and temporary friendship for the Soviet government in the '30's coincided… Read More
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