Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy & Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941

(Oxford University Press) Using archival records of agencies that helped craft the international image of communism, David-Fox shows how the Soviet Union’s attempts to promote the Bolshevik experiment abroad shaped, and were shaped by, the project of defining the nation from within. He argues that this in turn paved the way for the Cold War. David-Fox is an associate professor in the department of history and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.