1st Edition

Russia and the United States

By Pitirim Sorokin Copyright 2007
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

Throughout the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union viewed themselves as saviors of the world, and each saw itself as working on behalf of humanity against the other. The unexpected implosion of the Soviet empire in 1989 brought an end to this bipolar world and left both nations uncertain about their relations to the world and to each other. Antagonism between the United States... Read more
One: The Significant Lesson of Russian-American Relationships; Two: Facilitating Factors: Sociocultural Similarities; Three: American and Russian Souls; Four: Russian and American Social Institutions; Five: Russian Religious and Ecclesiastical Institutions; Six: The Moral Standards of the Two Nations; Seven: Creative Blossoming of the Two Nations; Eight: Mutual Influence of the Two Nations Upon Each Other’s Sociocultural Life; Nine: The Russia of the Post-Destructive Phase of the Revolution; Ten: The Cause and Factors of War and Peace; Eleven: The Conditions and Possibilities of a Lasting Peace in the Postwar Period

Biography

Pitirim Sorokin