Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-186) and index
Russian tourists view postbellum America -- 'Innocent' encounters with Russia, or Americans at play -- Russian 'marvels' and American 'originals.' The view of Russia and America during the last two decades of the nineteenth century -- The gifts of travel: tales of passing of the ethnic Russian in America: Vladimir Korolenko's Bez iazyka and Abraham Cahan's 'Theodore and Martha' and The white terror and the red
