Pitt Latin American Series

William Harrison Richardson

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9780822977124
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

In this unique book, William Richardson analyzes the descriptions given of Mexico by an assortment of Russian visitors, from the employees of the Russian-American Company who made their first contacts in the early nineteenth century to the artists, diplomats, and exiles of the twentieth century. He explores the biases they brought with them and the interpretations they relayed back to readers at home. Richardson finds that Russians had a particular empathy for the Mexicans, sharing a perceived similarity in their histories: conquest by a foreign power; a long period of centralized, authoritarian rule; an attempt at liberal reform followed by revolution.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• A Note on Transliteration
• Introduction
• 1. The Earliest Accounts
• 2. The Age of Porfiro Diaz
• 3. The Nineteen-Twenties: A Shared Revolutionary Experience
• 4. Sergei Eisenstein and the Eternal Circle
• 5. Postscript: Trotsky's Mexico
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index