Cultural Exchange and the Cold War : : Raising the Iron Curtain / / Yale Richmond.

Some fifty thousand Soviets visited the United States under various exchange programs between 1958 and 1988. They came as scholars and students, scientists and engineers, writers and journalists, government and party officials, musicians, dancers, and athletes—and among them were more than a few KGB...

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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2003]
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Abbreviations and Acronyms
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 Russia and the West
  • 2 The Moscow Youth Festival
  • 3 The Cultural Agreement
  • 4 Scholarly Exchanges
  • 5 Science and Technology
  • 6 Humanities and Social Sciences
  • 7 Moscow Think Tanks
  • 8 Forums Across Oceans
  • 9 Other NGO Exchanges
  • 10 Performing Arts
  • 11 Moved by the Movies
  • 12 Exhibitions—Seeing is Believing
  • 13 Hot Books in the Cold War
  • 14 The Pen Is Mightier . . .
  • 15 Journalists and Diplomats
  • 16 Fathers and Sons
  • 17 The Search for a Normal Society
  • 18 “Western Voices”
  • 19 To Helsinki and Beyond
  • 20 Mikhail Gorbachev, International Traveler
  • 21 And Those Who Could Not Travel
  • 22 The Polish Connection
  • 23 The Beatles Did It
  • 24 Obmen or Obman?
  • 25 The Future
  • Afterword
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index