Remembering the past, predicting the future : John Steinbeck's explorations of Cold War Russia in "A Russian journal"

Bibliographic description

punktacja MEiN [2017 B]: 5

title:	Remembering the past, predicting the future : John Steinbeck's explorations of Cold War Russia in "A Russian journal"
author:	Hauzer Katarzyna
journal title:	Explorations
volume:	5
date of publication :	2017
pages:	37-46
eISSN:	2353-6969
DOI:	10.25167/EXP13.17.5.4
notes:	Bibliogr. s. 46
language:	English
journal language:	English
abstract in English:	"A Russian Journal", published in 1948, is an unusual record of the great other side of Russia, wherein American Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck and the distinguished photojournalist Robert Capa struggle to present the Soviet Union in cultural rather than political terms. The authors make a sweeping journey through the USSR, portraying the landscapes and ways of life of ordinary Russians who were emerging from the rubble of WWII with the hope of peaceful coexistence of capitalism and communism in the atomic decade. Reporting on the unknown, Steinbeck and Capa take up a delicate task of introducing simple and unexplored truths about America‘s wartime ally and its immediate postwar adversary. Consequently, A Russian Journal becomes a unique journalistic account of two countries trapped in the rigidities of the Cold War miscommunication patterns.
keywords in English:	John Steinbeck, travel narrative, Russia, war, Cold War
number of pulisher's sheets:	0,81
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
type:	journal article
subtype:	academic paper