To see Paris and die : the Soviet lives of western culture / Eleonory Gilburd.
To see Paris and die : the Soviet lives of western culture / Eleonory Gilburd.
To see Paris and die : the Soviet lives of western culture / Eleonory Gilburd.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/0383
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Language
English
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Physical content
ix, 458 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Soviet internationalism -- The Tower of Babel -- Books about us -- Cinema without an accent -- Barbarians in the temple of art -- Books and borders -- Epilogue: Exit: How Soviets became westerners.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin's death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance. To See Paris and Die is a history of this momentous opening to the West. At the heart of this story is a process of t...
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To see Paris and die : the Soviet lives of western culture / Eleonory Gilburd.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2018
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G 2019/0383
Record Identifier
74VKV0EVj5LX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV0EVj5LX
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ISBN
0674980719 hardcover
9780674980716 hardcover
DDC
303.48247018210904
MMS ID
991024226211502626
