Michael David-Fox (Professor of History, Professor of History, Geor

Showcasing the Great Experiment

Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

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Produktbeschreibung

Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780199376421
• ISBN-10: 0199376425
• Artikelnr.: 40306361

Autorenporträt

Michael David-Fox is Associate Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 and a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: "Russia and the West" in a Soviet Key
Chapter 1: Cultural Diplomacy of a New Type
Chapter 2: Going West: Soviet "Cultural" Operations Abroad
Chapter 3: The Potemkin Village Dilemma
Chapter 4: Gorky's Gulag
Chapter 5: Hard-Currency Foreigners and the Campaign Mode
Chapter 6: Stalin and the Fellow-Travelers Revisited
Chapter 7: Going East: Friends and Enemies
Chapter 8: Rise of the Stalinist Superiority Complex
Epilogue: Toward the Cultural Cold War
Notes
Bibliography of Archival Collections
Index