ISBN10: 0700607544, ISBN13: 9780700607549, [publisher: University Press of Kansas, Kansas] Hardcover Hardcover. In 1867 Mark Twain cruised into the Black Sea on the first American tourist ship to visit in Russia. Just a few years later Russian Grand Duke Alexis in turn was hunting buffalo and drinking champagne on the Nebraska prairie. Both were taking advantage of a growing, if precarious, alliance between two of the worlds most influential nations. In fact, as Norman Saul reveals, between 1867--the year of the Alaskan purchase--and the beginning of World War I, Russian and American dignitaries, diplomats, businessmen, writers, tourists, and entertainers crossed between the two countries in far greater numbers than was previously known. Following the widely praised Distant Friends, volume one of Saul's trilogy on Russian American relations, Concord and Conflict provides the first comprehensive investigation of this highly transformational and fateful era in Russian-American relations. Excavating previously unmined Russian and American archives, he explores the flow and fluctuation of economic, diplomatic, social, and cultural affairs; personal and professional conflicts and scandals; and the evolution of each nation's perception of the other. At first concentrating on their similarities following the American Civil War, Saul contends, the Russian and American people established a tradition of friendship in the absence of major controversy. In many ways, ...

ISBN10: 0700607544, ISBN13: 9780700607549, [publisher: University Press of Kansas 1996-02-16, Lawrence, Kan.] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1996]