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VOKS, Cultural Diplomacy and the Shadow of the Lubianka: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Sovie...

VOKS, Cultural Diplomacy and the Shadow of the Lubianka: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Sovie...

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VOKS, Cultural Diplomacy and the Shadow of the Lubianka: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Soviet Union

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VOKS, Cultural Diplomacy and the Shadow of the Lubianka: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Soviet Union

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London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd

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Journal of contemporary history, 2017-10, Vol.52 (4), p.1022-1041

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English

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London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd

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Existing scholarship suggests that Stalin’s Great Terror of 1936–8 seriously undermined Soviet cultural diplomacy and forced its main promoter, the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), to succumb to the strict control of the party and secret police. By contrast, this article argues that by the spring and summer of...

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VOKS, Cultural Diplomacy and the Shadow of the Lubianka: Olavi Paavolainen’s 1939 Visit to the Soviet Union

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1947038672

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1947038672

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0022-0094

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1461-7250

DOI

10.1177/0022009416669422

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