Studying our nearest oriental neighbor: American scholars and late imperial Russia / David C. Engerman -- Inside stories: utopia, Bohemia, crucible. Hallie Flanagan and the Soviet Union: new heaven, new earth, new theater / Lynn Mally -- Kennan encounters Russia, 1933-37 / Frank Costigliola -- Constructing a Cold War epic: Harrison Salisbury and the siege of Leningrad / Lisa A. Kirschenbaum -- Our popular Russian romance. The Russian romance in American popular culture, 1890-1939 / Choi Chatterjee -- Russia on their mind: how Hollywood pictured the Soviet front / Beth Holmgren -- Conspicuous consumers: ambassadors and donors. Another mission to Moscow: Ida Rosenthal and consumer dreams / Emily S. Rosenberg -- The Moscow correspondents, Soviet human rights activists, and the problem of the Western gift / Barbara Walker -- Americans in the Russian mirror. Interviewing village mothers--with help from my friends / David L. Ransel -- Fear, affluence, and the great plutonium extravaganza / Kate Brown -- Living across cultures: an interview with Marina Goldovskaya, a "Russian-American" filmmaker / Marina Goldovskaya with Choi Chatterjee and Beth Holmgren -- The search for what might be true: thoughts from inside an era of change / John Freedman.