Beschreibung:
Ludmila Stern is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Language Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia, where she coordinates Russian Studies, and Interpreting and Translation Studies. She has published on VOKS and French intellectuals, and her other research interests include courtroom interpreting (Australian War Crimes Prosecutions and ICTY).
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.
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