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Author:

Carew, Joy Gleason

Title:

Blacks, Reds, and Russians : sojourners in search of the Soviet promise / Joy Gleason Carew.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvii, 273 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Soviet Union--History.
African Americans--Soviet Union--Biography.--Biography.
African American intellectuals--Soviet Union--Biography.
African American scientists--Soviet Union--Biography.
Visitors, Foreign--Soviet Union--History.
Intercultural communication--Soviet Union.
Soviet Union--Race relations.
Soviet Union--Intellectual life--1917-1970
Soviet Union--Relations--United States.
United States--Relations--Soviet Union.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-263) and index.

Contents:

A journey begins -- Early sojourners Claude McKay and Otto Huiswood : shaping the "Negro question" -- Harry Haywood, Kutva, and training black cadres -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the Soviet experiment -- Robert Robinson and the technical specialists -- George Washington Carver, Oliver Golden, and the Soviet experiment -- The agricultural specialists journey to the Soviet Union -- Langston Hughes and the black and white film group -- Paul Robeson's search for a society free of racism -- The expatriates : the purges, the war years, and beyond -- William "Bill" Davis, the American national exhibit, and U.S. public diplomacy -- The Cold War, solidarity building, and the recruitment of new sojourners.

ISBN:

0813543061 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813543062 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181079169

LCCN:

2007044896

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)