Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40 : From Red Square to the Left Bank (Basees/routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Stern, Ludmila

Routledge（2009/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 270 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415545853
• DDC分類 305.55209042

Full Description

Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This book explores how this seemingly impossible situation came about.

Focusing in particular on the work of various official and semi-official bodies, including Comintern, the International Association of Revolutionary Writers, the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, and the Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers' Union, this book shows how cultural propaganda was always a high priority for the Soviet Union, and how successful this cultural propaganda was in seducing so many Western thinkers.

Contents

1. The Soviet Myth and Western Intellectuals: From Attraction to Action 2. Comintern - The Origins of Soviet Cultural Propaganda 3. MORP - Propaganda through Coercion 4. MORP - The Closing Years 5. Laying the Foundations of Relations with Western Intellectuals: VOKS in the 1920s 6. Manufacturing Support: VOKS in the 1930s 7. VOKS and the 'Famous Foreigners' 8. The Bond of Friendship: Foreign Commission of the Soviet Writers' Union and French Writers