Ludmila Stern

Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40 (eBook, ePUB)

From Red Square to the Left Bank

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This book explores how this seemingly impossible situation came about.

Focusing in particular on the work of various official and semi-official bodies, including Comintern, the International Association of Revolutionary Writers, the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and the Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers' Union, this book shows how cultural propaganda was always a high priority for the Soviet Union, and how successful this cultural propaganda was in seducing so many Western thinkers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134238668
• Artikelnr.: 38254797

Autorenporträt

Ludmila Stern is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Language Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she coordinates Russian Studies, and Interpreting and Translation Studies. She has published on VOKS and French intellectuals, and her other research interests include courtroom interpreting (Australian War Crimes Prosecutions and ICTY).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Soviet Myth and Western Intellectuals: From Attraction to Action 2.
Comintern - The Origins of Soviet Cultural Propaganda 3. MORP - Propaganda
through Coercion 4. MORP - The Closing Years 5. Laying the Foundations of
Relations with Western Intellectuals: VOKS in the 1920s 6. Manufacturing
Support: VOKS in the 1930s 7. VOKS and the 'Famous Foreigners' 8. The Bond
of Friendship: Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers' Union and French
Writers