{"product_id":"soviet-soft-power-in-poland-culture-and-the-making-of-stalins-new-empire-19431957-9781469654782","title":"Soviet Soft Power in Poland  Culture and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConcentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use \"\"soft power\"\" in order to galvanize support for the postwar order in the emerging Soviet bloc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very welcome addition to the growing field of the transnational history of Stalinism and the cultural Cold War. . . . Will be a stimulating read for anyone who wants to look inside the socialist 'propaganda kitchen' and reflect on why the Soviet empire lost the Cold War.\" - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Offers interesting observations that can be applied to ancient empires and modern ones. . . . Recommended.\" - \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSoviet Soft Power\u003c\/i\u003e, by drawing on material from Polish and Russian archives, adds to our understanding of Soviet-Polish cultural interactions and Polish and Soviet propaganda policy during the first decade of the Cold War. It also offers a very useful point of departure for further research. This impressive book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars.\" - \u003ci\u003eEuropean History Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Provides deepened exploration of fascinating primary materials from Polish and Russian archives combined with published sources into a revealing narrative. . . . An original contribution to our understating of postwar Europe and Soviet cultural outreach which fills in an important gap in knowledge.\" - \u003ci\u003eEuropean Review of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Babiracki's brilliant, big-hearted book burrows inside the aspirations and failures of the Soviet imperial project in eastern Europe. . . . Meticuously researched, thickly layered vignettes describing encounters between Soviets and Poles of various stripes.\" - \u003ci\u003eSlavic Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An insightful and intelligent contribution to our knowledge of Stalinist cultural policies.\" - \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] rich, well-researched, and at times poetically written cultural history of Polish-Soviet relationships in the first years after the war.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50041306939735,"sku":"9781469654782","price":29.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781469654782.jpg?v=1740181895","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/soviet-soft-power-in-poland-culture-and-the-making-of-stalins-new-empire-19431957-9781469654782","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}