CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Citation XI
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. PART I BOLSHEVIKS IN NEW YORK
7. I. Pre-Revolutionary Discoveries of America 25
8. 2. Post-Revolutionary Columbuses 52
9. 3. Automobile Journeys of the 1930s 73
10. PART II THE AMERICAN TEXT OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE
11. 4. Recurrent Subtexts and Motifs in American Travelogues 101
12. PART III YANKEES IN PETROGRAD
13. 5. Reverse American Travelogues 193
14. CONCLUSION From Dante's Inferno to Odysseus's Ithaca 218
15. Appendix 1 Lexical and Grammatical Neologisms in Pilniak's OK 227
16. Appendix 2 The Transatlantic Journey 233
17. Notes 235
18. Bibliography 273
19. Index 291