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 |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Съдържание:
- Introduction : Russia and the West in a Soviet key
- Cultural diplomacy of a new type
- Going West : Soviet cultural operations abroad
- The Potemkin village dilemma
- Gorky's gulag
- Hard-currency foreigners and the campaign mode
- Stalin and the fellow-travelers revisited
- Going East : friends and enemies
- Rise of the Stalinist superiority complex
- Epilogue : toward the cultural Cold War.