Nearly a century of Cold War tensions between the United States and Russia hide the incredibly close friendship that the two nations enjoyed before this period. From America&rsquo;s colonial founding in the 1600s to the eve of World War One, the two distant nations relied on each other in a surprising number of ways. Each country was searching for allies on the world stage, and this culminated in a "blueprint for friendship" during the 1860s and 1870s, spurred by mutual conversations around the abolition of slavery and serfdom. However, this amicable distance dissolved following the Russo-Japanese War, which introduced cycles of mutual stereotyping and a damaging "war of images," where Americans saw Russian authoritarianism and Russians saw US imperialism and racism. Despite these emerging tensions, the relationship continued its characteristic oscillation, with both countries drawing inspiration from one another, leading to a brief "wartime honeymoon" at the start of World War I. To discuss this forgotten chapter in Russian-American history is today&rsquo;s guest, Victoria Zhuravleva, one of the authors of &ldquo;Distant Friends and Intimate Enemies: A History of American-Russian Relations.&rdquo;&nbsp;See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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