Showcasing the Great Experiment : Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David-Fox, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
Subjects:
1917 - 1936
Intellectuals > Travel > Soviet Union > History.
Visitors, Foreign > Soviet Union > History.
Propaganda > Soviet Union.
Cultural policy
Intellectuals > Travel
International relations
Propaganda
Public opinion, American
Public opinion, European
Visitors, Foreign
Soviet Union > Foreign public opinion, American.
Soviet Union > Relations > Western countries.
Western countries > Relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Cultural policy.
Soviet Union > Foreign public opinion, European.
Soviet Union > History > 1917-1936.
Soviet Union
Western countries
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction: "Russia and the West" in a Soviet Key; 1. Cultural Diplomacy of a New Type; 2. Going West: Soviet "Cultural" Operations Abroad; 3. The Potemkin Village Dilemma; 4. Gorky's Gulag; 5. Hard-Currency Foreigners and the Campaign Mode; 6. Stalin and the Fellow-Travelers Revisited; 7. Going East: Friends and Enemies; 8. Rise of the Stalinist Superiority Complex; Epilogue: Toward the Cultural Cold War; Notes; Bibliography of Archival Collections; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.

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