Showcasing the great experiment : cultural diplomacy and western visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 /
During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-trav...
| Основен автор: | David-Fox, Michael, 1965- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves. Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes towards the West. Many of the twentieth century's greatest writers and thinkers, including Theodore Dreiser, Andre Gide, Paul Robeson, and George Bernard Shaw, notoriously defended Stalin's USSR despite the unprecedented violence of its prewar decade. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0199376425 9780199376421 |