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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• 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