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Showcasing the great experiment : cultural diplomacy and western visitors to Soviet Union, 1921-1941 / Michael David-Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- David-Fox, Michael, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intellectuals--Travel--Soviet Union--History.
- Intellectuals.
- Visitors, Foreign--Soviet Union--History.
- Visitors, Foreign.
- Propaganda--Soviet Union.
- Propaganda.
- Soviet Union--Foreign public opinion, American.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Relations--Western countries.
- Western countries--Relations--Soviet Union.
- Western countries.
- Soviet Union--Cultural policy.
- Soviet Union--Foreign public opinion, European.
- Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (411 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-933991-0
- 0-19-937642-5
- 0-19-979472-3
- 9786613427304
- 1-283-42730-3
- OCLC:
- 769344055
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