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Although there have been many studies of U.S.Soviet diplomacy in the twentieth century, most explorations of people-to-people diplomacy begin in the 1980s and to not take into account the early contacts in the revolutionary period and 1920s. This study explores in greater depth the religious figures, radical activists, entrepreneurs, engineers, social workers, and others in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union who reached across the barriers of ideology and culture and history to forge tentative but real human connections in an attempt to further better understanding between the two countries. All of these efforts prefigured the much more heralded citizen diplomacy efforts of the 1980s, which helped end the Cold War.



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Introduction / Early American Contacts with Soviet Russia / Quakers and Bolsheviks, 1917-1931 / Social Gospel Origins / YMCA, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Study Trips / The 1930s: Fellow Travelers, Social Workers, Entrepreneurs, and Engineers / 1940s and 1950s: From the Grand Alliance to the Cultural Agreement / Looking Forward / Conclusion

Origins of PeopletoPeople Diplomacy U.S. and

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 1/29/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781032042169, 978-1032042169
      ISBN10: 1032042168
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Although there have been many studies of U.S.Soviet diplomacy in the twentieth century, most explorations of people-to-people diplomacy begin in the 1980s and to not take into account the early contacts in the revolutionary period and 1920s. This study explores in greater depth the religious figures, radical activists, entrepreneurs, engineers, social workers, and others in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union who reached across the barriers of ideology and culture and history to forge tentative but real human connections in an attempt to further better understanding between the two countries. All of these efforts prefigured the much more heralded citizen diplomacy efforts of the 1980s, which helped end the Cold War.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction / Early American Contacts with Soviet Russia / Quakers and Bolsheviks, 1917-1931 / Social Gospel Origins / YMCA, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Study Trips / The 1930s: Fellow Travelers, Social Workers, Entrepreneurs, and Engineers / 1940s and 1950s: From the Grand Alliance to the Cultural Agreement / Looking Forward / Conclusion

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