Showcasing the great experiment: Cultural diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 Transl. from English by V. Makarov Warning: Undefined array key "" in /home3/russianp/public_html/books/fullBookDetails.php on line 85
Москва: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2015 568 p Серия: Historia Rossica Hardcover.12.5 x 20 cm ISBN: 9785444802151 Язык: Русский
During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American 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. Drawing on the declassified archival records of the agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism, David-Fox shows how Soviet efforts to sell the Bolshevik experiment abroad through cultural diplomacy shaped and were, in turn, shaped by the ongoing project of defining the Soviet Union from within. These interwar Soviet methods of mobilizing the intelligentsia for the international ideological contest, he argues, directly paved the way for the cultural Cold War.
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