Main entry:

David-Fox, Michael, 1965- author.

Title & Author:

Showcasing the great experiment : cultural diplomacy and western visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941 / Michael David-Fox.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Description:

xii, 396 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

9780199376421 (pbk.)
0199376425

Subject:

Intellectuals Travel Soviet Union History.
Visitors, Foreign Soviet Union History.
Propaganda Soviet Union.
Intellectuels Voyages URSS Histoire.
Visiteurs étrangers URSS Histoire.
Propagande URSS.
Visitors, Foreign.
Public opinion, European.
Public opinion, American.
Cultural policy.
Intellectuals Travel.
International relations.
Propaganda.
Society.
Soviet Union Relations Western countries.
Western countries Relations Soviet Union.
Soviet Union Cultural policy.
Soviet Union Foreign public opinion, American.
Soviet Union Foreign public opinion, European.
Soviet Union History 1917-1936.
URSS Histoire 1917-1936.
Soviet Union.
Western countries.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307182
Call No.: BIB 252675
Status: Available