Bøker av Lisa A. (West Chester University Kirschenbaum

In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs their epic journey and their encounters with a vast cast of characters in order to reveal the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations between the two countries.

This book provides an intimate picture of international communism in the Stalin era. Focusing on Americans and Spaniards who worked or studied in Moscow and later participated in the Spanish Civil War, it uncovers the personal and political ties that linked communists to one another and the Soviet Union.