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‘At the time of the October Revolution, the Russians based their conception of American culture on a combination of impressions derived from books of fact and fiction …  There was no dearth of facts about the United States, but there were huge quantities of misinformation and myth. ‘American literature in tsarist times had done little to […]

The boom years of 1890s Russia came to an abrupt halt at the turn of the century when an economic slump left many of the new urban working class jobless and led to unrest in the countryside.  The Tsar’s popularity took another knock when hopes of a quick military victory in the Russo-Japanese War (1904) […]