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- Title
Winning Friends, Influencing People: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy in Australia, 1928-1968.
- Authors
McNair, John
- Abstract
This article draws on largely unpublished archive materials to examine the strategies employed by the USSR to manage its cultural relations with Australia as a means of extending its influence beyond its traditional supporters in trade union and socialist movements. The activities of key players like the All-Union Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries (VOKS), the Union of Soviet Friendship Societies (SSOD) and the International Commission of the Union of Soviet Writers and their interaction with Australian organizations and individuals identified and cultivated as contacts of influence are reviewed in the context of the changing international situation and an often problematic bilateral political relationship.
- Subjects
CULTURAL relations; SOVIET Union foreign relations; AUSTRALIAN foreign relations; LABOR unions; SOCIAL movements; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Australian Journal of Politics & History, 2015, Vol 61, Issue 4, p515
- ISSN
0004-9522
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/ajph.12116