Commotion in Moscow
Sheila Fitzpatrick: Paris Syndrome, 1 August 2019
To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture
by Eleonory Gilburd.
Harvard, 458 pp., £28.95, January 2019,978 0 674 98071 6 Show More
by Eleonory Gilburd.
Harvard, 458 pp., £28.95, January 2019,
“... post-Stalin period, under Khrushchev’s Thaw, ‘peaceful co-existence’ with the West – as Eleonory Gilburd puts it – became the new orthodoxy, linked with an idea of the ‘universality’ of human culture and the value of ‘world civilisation’. Cultural exchanges established by a Soviet-British agreement in 1959 and administered by the ... ”
