Outfox them!
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Stalin v Emigrés, 8 March 2012
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union 1921-41
by Michael David-Fox.
Oxford, 396 pp., £35, January 2012,978 0 19 979457 7 Show More
by Michael David-Fox.
Oxford, 396 pp., £35, January 2012,
Moscow, the Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-41
by Katerina Clark.
Harvard, 420 pp., £25.95, November 2011,978 0 674 05787 6 Show More
by Katerina Clark.
Harvard, 420 pp., £25.95, November 2011,
Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour and Everyday Life under Stalin
by Timothy Johnston.
Oxford, 240 pp., £55, August 2011,978 0 19 960403 6 Show More
by Timothy Johnston.
Oxford, 240 pp., £55, August 2011,
Stalin’s Last Generation: Soviet Postwar Youth and the Emergence of Mature Socialism
by Juliane Fürst.
Oxford, 391 pp., £63, September 2010,978 0 19 957506 0 Show More
by Juliane Fürst.
Oxford, 391 pp., £63, September 2010,
All This Is Your World: Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin
by Anne Gorsuch.
Oxford, 222 pp., £60, August 2011,978 0 19 960994 9 Show More
by Anne Gorsuch.
Oxford, 222 pp., £60, August 2011,
“... Gide who turned critical of the Soviet Union, bitterly disappointing their hosts, were excoriated.Michael David-Fox’s Showcasing the Great Experiment is the story of Soviet wooing of the Western intelligentsia, focusing on VOKS under Kameneva and Arosev. About a hundred thousand foreigners visited the Soviet Union in the prewar period, many of them ... ”
