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

• Autore: David-Fox Michael <1965->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (411 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/2470182109041
• Soggetto topico: Intellectuals - Travel - Soviet Union - History; Visitors, Foreign - Soviet Union - History; Propaganda - Soviet Union
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Foreign public opinion, American; Soviet Union Relations Western countries; Western countries Relations Soviet Union; Soviet Union Cultural policy; Soviet Union Foreign public opinion, European; Soviet Union History 1917-1936
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Showcasing the great experiment
• ISBN: 0-19-933991-0; 0-19-937642-5; 0-19-979472-3; 9786613427304; 1-283-42730-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819931903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II