Showcasing the great experiment : cultural diplomacy and western visitors to Soviet Union, 1921-1941 / Michael David-Fox.
David-Fox, Michael, 1965-
2012
DK268.5 .D38 2012 (Mapit)
Available at General Collection

Items

Details

Title
Showcasing the great experiment : cultural diplomacy and western visitors to Soviet Union, 1921-1941 / Michael David-Fox.
Author
David-Fox, Michael, 1965-
ISBN
9780199794577 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
019979457X (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Language
English
Description
xii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
DK268.5 .D38 2012
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in
On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources
Introduction : Russia and the West in a Soviet key
Cultural diplomacy of a new type
Going West : Soviet cultural operations abroad
The Potemkin village dilemma
Gorky's gulag
Hard-currency foreigners and the campaign mode
Stalin and the fellow-travelers revisited
Going East : friends and enemies
Rise of the Stalinist superiority complex
Epilogue : toward the cultural Cold War.

Browse Subjects

Show more subjects...

Statistics

from
to
Export