"Russian-American Dialogue on the History of U.S. Political
Parties" is the fourth volume in the Russian-American Dialogues
series--a series that brings together scholars in the former Soviet
Union and the United States who share an interest in the study of
America's heritage and its importance to contemporary Russia.
In this valuable work, Russian scholars such as N. V. Sivachev,
Alexander S. Manykin, and Vladimir V. Sogrin examine the history of
American political parties and the role they played across two
centuries. The Russians draw their own conclusions about the
durability of the two-party system, giving careful consideration to
historical crises--the secessionist movement and the Civil War, the
reform era of the Populists and Progressives at the turn of the
twentieth century, the Great Depression and the New Deal--in which
the two-party structure was tested. Russian perspectives are also
applied in analyzing the evolution of particular parties, from the
rise and fall of the nineteenth-century Whigs to the shifting
balance between twentieth-century Democrats and Republicans. The
dialogue is then developed through commentaries by American
historians such as Allan G. Bogue and Theodore J. Lowi and through
counter-responses, often strongly expressed, by the Russian
authors.
This lively exchange of ideas helps advance an understanding of
key aspects of American party history and offers thought-provoking
discussions of comparative international studies and
historiography. Because the book provides unique perspectives on
the American partisan experience by non-American specialists, it
will be welcomed by all historians, as well as by anyone with an
interest in the American-Russian connection.
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