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Devid-Foks, Maikl (Michael David-Fox) Vitriny Velikogo Eksperimenta
Kul`turnaia Diplomatiia Sovetskogo Soiuza i Ego Zapadnye Gosti, 1921-1941 Gody
[ Vitriny Velikogo Eksperimenta : Kul`turnaia Diplomatiia Sovetskogo Soiuza i Ego Zapadnye Gosti, 1921-1941 Gody]
Showcasing the great experiment: Cultural diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941
Transl. from English by V. Makarov
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2015
568 p
Serie: Historia Rossica
Hardcover.12.5 x 20 cm
ISBN: 9785444802151
Language: RussianDuring 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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