Ivan Kurilla: Americans and Everyone Else. Printed book.

A fascinating book by an authoritative Russian historian that invites readers to understand the role the USA plays in the world. No matter how events unfold globally, the United States of America remains one of the key players on the world stage. Their actions, whether one likes it or not, evoke a lively response from other countries around the world. Some want to adopt the U.S. model, others want to do the exact opposite, and some simply want to learn from their experience. What is the "American model," given that it has sparked such interest for centuries? What domestic and foreign policy factors led America to become exactly what it is today? Renowned Americanist historian Ivan Kurilla examines how the key elements of the American model were formed—democracy, exceptionalism, messianism, and much more—how isolationism was replaced by expansionism, and how idealism and rationalism coexist. The author identifies the eternal search for and juxtaposition of the self against "Others"—the English colonizers, Native Americans, proponents of slavery, the policies of Tsarist Russia and the USSR, and in recent years, the rise of China and Russia’s return to the international stage—as one of the main factors in the formation of the American model. We are living in another era of change, and it is safe to say that the current generation of Russians will witness the construction of a new world order (with some even participating in it). It is too early to predict what role the United States of America, the most influential country of recent decades, will play in this new world, but it seems obvious that this restructuring will be driven to a large extent either by the U.S. itself or by the attempts of other countries to resist American will. The book is supplemented with archival and modern photographs, lithographs, engravings, and posters.

Author: Ivan Kurilla

Pages: 318 (offset). Hardcover

Dimensions: 150x220x20 mm