To See Paris And Die: The Soviet Lives Of Western Culture

After Stalin died a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes. Soviet citizens invested these imports with political and personal significance, transforming them into intimate possessions. Eleonory Gilburd reveals how Western culture defined the last three decades of the Soviet Union, its death, and afterlife.

• | Author: Eleonory Gilburd
• | Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 480 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/HISTORY
• | ISBN-10: 0674980719
• | ISBN-13: 9780674980716