Russia Has Been Many Things to Americans, Except an Ordinary Country
Love ‘Em or Hate ‘Em, My Feeling Was We Should Study Those Elusive Soviets
The United States and Russia have been at loggerheads for so long now that their rivalry might seem to be a permanent feature of the international firmament. But just as the stars have only recently come into their current alignment (on an astronomical time scale, of course), so it is with the relationship between Washington and Moscow. In the American imagination of the 18th and 19th century, Russia was just one of many places “overseas,” albeit a really big, cold one with a bunch of good writers.
Of course that …
