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Ilf and Petrov's American road trip : the 1935 travelogue of two Soviet writers

by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Erika Wolf, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Aleksandra Ilf, Anne Fisher

This volume pairs a 1935 travelogue across the United States with a retrospective account of the same journey seventy years later. The works provide a comparative study of American social and cultural shifts between the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Accession 7353 ISBN 9781568986005 Publisher Princeton Architectural Press, Cabinet Books
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