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Dissertation Information for Rosa Magnusdottir

NAME:
- Rosa Magnusdottir

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (USA) (2006)

ADVISORS:
- Donald Raleigh

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Michael H. Hunt
- David M. Griffiths
- Jeffrey W. Jones
- Robert M. Jenkins

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Keeping up appearances: How the Soviet state failed to control popular attitudes toward the United States of America, 1945--1959

Abstract: This dissertation explores perceptions of the United States of America in the Soviet Union from the April 1945 meeting of Soviet and American soldiers on the river Elbe in Germany to the September 1959 visit of Premier N. S. Khrushchev to America. It uses a large body of archival sources to uncover multiple discourses about America in the Soviet Union, arguing that the Soviet state's America myths helped create a positive counter-myth of America. Chapter 1 introduces the state-sponsored anti-American campaign during the Stalin years and some of its most active participants. Chapter 2 addresses the effectiveness of the anti-American campaign as it uncovers an unofficial counter-myth that mirrored the anti-American propaganda promoted by Soviet authorities. In Chapter 3, considers official American propaganda during the Stalin era and shows how it contributed to the popular counter-myth that greatly distressed Soviet authorities. Chapter 4 examines the restored cultural relations with the United States, with a focus on the revival of Soviet-American cultural exchanges in 1955. Finally, Chapter 5 looks at Khrushchev's efforts to celebrate Soviet socialism while trying to maintain social order and promote the concept of peaceful coexistence with the United States. I conclude by considering Soviet perceptions of the United States in the 1960s and beyond, speculating on the meaning and importance of the myth of America in the Soviet Union and, after 1991, in Russia.
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