CONTENTS // Preface ix // Introduction: "Russia and the West” in a Soviet Key і // 1. Cultural Diplomacy of a New Type 28 // 2. Going West: Soviet "Cultural” Operations Abroad 6i // 3. The Potemkin Village Dilemma 98 // 4. Gorkys Gulag 142 // 5. Hard-Currency Foreigners and the Campaign Mode 175 // 6. Stalin and the Fellow-Travelers Revisited 207 // 7. Going East: Friends and Enemies 247 // 8. Rise of the Stalinist Superiority Complex 285 Epilogue: Toward the Cultural Cold War 312 Notes 325 // Bibliography of Archival Collections З82 // Index 385