Showcasing the great experiment
Subtitle: cultural diplomacy and western visitors to Soviet Russia, 1921-1941
By: Michael David-Fox
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780199794577
Subjects: American Foreign public opinion; History; Cultural policy; Travel; Relations; Foreign Visitors; Intellectuals; European Foreign public opinion; Propaganda; Soviet Union
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Russia and the West in a Soviet key; title: Cultural diplomacy of a new type; title: Going West : Soviet cultural operations abroad; title: The Potemkin village dilemma; title: Gorky's gulag; title: Hard-currency foreigners and the campaign mode; title: Stalin and the fellow-travelers revisited; title: Going East : friends and enemies; title: Rise of the Stalinist superiority complex; title: Epilogue : toward the cultural Cold War.