Essays

Alexis de Tocqueville saw the American family, so different from the European, as an exemplar and bulwark of sober democracy.

Americans in academic centers. And, more remarkably, an unprecedented surge in studies of the United States Rus- sian specialists. In each country, during the 1970s, popular ac-counts of everyday life in the other have become best sellers. Here, two young American scholars, S. Frederick Starr and William Zim- merman, analyze in turn what the Russians have been writing about the Americans, and vice versa.

THE RUSSIAN VIEW
OF AMERICA
by S. Frederick Starr
Rare is the American over 35 who cannot d...

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