To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture

Review “Traces the officially sanctioned channels through which Western books, paintings, films, and songs reached a mass audience, and the varied and surprising stories of how they were appropriated and transformed for a Soviet setting…Gilburd’s book restores meaning and value to the detritus of the Thaw. She brings into view the individuals who gave Western culture its Soviet lives…Her writing magnificently combines scholarly sophistication with insight and sympathy.” ―

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