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Showcasing the Great Experiment
Michael David-Fox
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Description for Showcasing the Great Experiment
Paperback. Showcasing the Great Experiment provides the most far-reaching account of Soviet methods of cultural diplomacy innovated to influence Western intellectuals and foreign visitors. Probing the declassified records of agencies charged with crafting the international image of communism. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW; JPFC; JPSD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 25. Weight in Grams: 616.
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, André Gide, Paul Robeson, and George Bernard Shaw, notoriously defended Stalin's USSR despite the unprecedented violence of its prewar decade. While many visitors were profoundly affected by their Soviet tours, so too was the ... Read more
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, André Gide, Paul Robeson, and George Bernard Shaw, notoriously defended Stalin's USSR despite the unprecedented violence of its prewar decade. While many visitors were profoundly affected by their Soviet tours, so too was the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199376421
SKU
V9780199376421
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About Michael David-Fox
Michael David-Fox is Associate Professor in the Department of History and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Revolution of the Mind: Higher Learning among the Bolsheviks, 1918-1929 and a founding editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History.
Reviews for Showcasing the Great Experiment
The books analytical framework and wealth of new material creates a rich canvas. ... the book provides an important historiographic and theoretical overview of the period, bringing together a wealth of information and revisiting questions of Soviet-Western intellectual exchange that still remain relevant today.
Ludmila Stern, European History Quarterly
David Fox's marvellous book allows us to see things ... Read more
Ludmila Stern, European History Quarterly
David Fox's marvellous book allows us to see things ... Read more