@article{1389713,
      recid = {1389713},
      author = {David-Fox, Michael,},
      title = {Showcasing the great experiment : cultural diplomacy and  western visitors to Soviet Union, 1921-1941 /},
      publisher = {Oxford University Press,},
      address = {Oxford ;},
      pages = {xii, 396 pages :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and  American writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and  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. Many of the twentieth century's  greatest writers and thinkers, including Theodore Dreiser,  Andre Gide, Paul Robeson, and George Bernard Shaw,  notoriously defended Stalin's USSR despite the  unprecedented violence of its prewar decade.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1389713},
}