03194nam 2200673 a 450 991079226520332120230725022923.00-19-933991-00-19-937642-50-19-979472-397866134273041-283-42730-3(CKB)2560000000295326(EBL)829386(OCoLC)769344055(SSID)ssj0000571282(PQKBManifestationID)11365953(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571282(PQKBWorkID)10611292(PQKB)10863749(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084546(MiAaPQ)EBC829386(EXLCZ)99256000000029532620110218d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShowcasing the great experiment[electronic resource] cultural diplomacy and western visitors to Soviet Union, 1921-1941 /Michael David-FoxNew York ;Oxford Oxford University Press20121 online resource (411 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-979457-X 0-19-993224-7 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.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 IntellectualsTravelSoviet UnionHistoryVisitors, ForeignSoviet UnionHistoryPropagandaSoviet UnionSoviet UnionForeign public opinion, AmericanSoviet UnionRelationsWestern countriesWestern countriesRelationsSoviet UnionSoviet UnionCultural policySoviet UnionForeign public opinion, EuropeanSoviet UnionHistory1917-1936IntellectualsTravelHistory.Visitors, ForeignHistory.Propaganda303.482David-Fox Michael1965-992207MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792265203321Showcasing the great experiment3671151UNINA