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Author:

David-Fox, Michael, 1965-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xii, 396 p. : ill. 24 cm.

Subject:

Soviet Union--Relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Relations--Soviet Union.
Intellectuals--History.--Soviet Union--History.
Visitors, Foreign--Soviet Union--History.
Propaganda--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Cultural policy.
Soviet Union--Foreign public opinion, American.
Soviet Union--Foreign public opinion, European.
Soviet Union--History--1917-1936.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

019979457X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780199794577 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)703623679

LCCN:

2011006702

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)