List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Imagining Russia Foundational Precepts Implications and Interventions 1. The Geopolitical Traffic in Gendered Russian Imaginaries Gendered Russian Nationalism Gendered American Nationalism Russia and Russians in a U.S. Context U.S. Foreign Policy and the Triumphalist Mythscape 2. Freedom for Whom? Support for What? Provisions and Objectives Implementation Capitalism as "Freedom" Imaginaries at Work Russia as Child/United States as Great, White Father Russia as Student/United States as Tutor Russia as Frontier/United States as Entrepreneurial Pioneer Russia as Pathologically Ill Patient/United States as Doctor Russia as Retrogressive Baba /United States as Responsible Superpower Imperial Masculinity 3. Death and the Maiden Conjuring the Ghost Anastasia on Stage and Screen A Reflection of U.

S.-Russia Policy Reckoning with the Ghost 4. Crime, Corruption, and Chaos American Heroes Russian Victims and Villains With Impunity: The United States as Innocent Bystander From Mother Russia to Miss Russia 5. "It's a Cold War Mentality" The West Wing and U.S. Political Culture Gendered Discursive Configurations Vassily Konanov as Boris Yeltsin: "Our Kind of Crazy" Cold War Holdouts Peter Chigorin as Vladimir Putin: Barlet's Last Best Hope Whose Cold-war Mentality? 6. Cultural Politics of Cold War A Cold-war Museum Atomic Secrets The Rosenbergs as Discursive Phenomena The Rosenbergs at the International Spy Museum Origins of State-based Terror Heterosexpionage The Cold War as Cautionary Tale Conclusion: Casualties of Cold War Russia's Geopolitical Resurgence Competing Masculinities Obama's "Reset" Appendix Notes Bibliography Index.