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Fascination and Enmity : Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945 - Michael David-Fox

Fascination and Enmity

Russia and Germany as Entangled Histories, 1914-1945

By: Michael David-Fox (Editor), Peter Holquist (Editor), Alexander M. Martin (Editor)

Paperback | 31 August 2012

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Russia and Germany have had a long history of significant cultural, political, and economic exchange. Despite these beneficial interactions, stereotypes of the alien Other persisted. Germans perceived Russia as a vast frontier with unlimited potential, yet infused with an u201cAsiannessu201d that explained its backwardness and despotic leadership. Russians admired German advances in science, government, and philosophy, but saw their people as lifeless and obsessed with order.

Fascination and Enmity presents an original transnational history of the two nations during the critical era of the world wars. By examining the mutual perceptions and misperceptions within each country, the contributors reveal the psyche of the Russian-German dynamic and its use as a powerful political and cultural tool.

Through accounts of fellow travelers, POWs, war correspondents, soldiers on the front, propagandists, revolutionaries, the Comintern, and wartime and postwar occupations, the contributors analyze the kinetics of the Russian-German exchange and the perceptions drawn from these encounters. The result is a highly engaging chronicle of the complex entanglements of two world powers through the great wars of the twentieth century.
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A bevy of important and insightful articles.-- "German Studies Review"
A new, often interesting approach to the subject of transnational history. . . . an attempt to move beyond the comparative totalitarian paradigm that has recently been used to think about these two states. . . . The volume does an excellent job in demonstrating the degree of cultural entanglement between the two sides, as well as many of its variations and complications. . . . One sign of useful scholarly work is that it raises new questions even as it answers others. This is certainly true of this volume.-- "Europe-Asia Studies"
Compiles the best of new scholarship . . . the contributions to 'Fascination and Enmity' serve as an outstanding primer to the new historiography of 'entangled history'. Collectively, the chapters provide an insightful introduction to the study of continuities and divergences between the world wars and in moments of the extended German-Soviet encounter during the short twentieth century's 'age of extremes'.-- "SEER"
Path-breaking . . . the richness of this remarkable volume will be of interest to historians as well as students of twentieth-century Germany and Russia. The editors succeed admirably in their effort to point to the scholarly potential of exploring the interactions between the two countries.-- "German History"

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