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 \u201cAsianness\u201d 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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