title: The House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague and Soviet Public Diplomacy after the Prague Spring
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metadata.value: Sak, K. V.
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metadata.value: 2024-01-31T20:45:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-01-31T20:45:51Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Sak K. V. ‘The House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague and Soviet Public Diplomacy after the Prague Spring’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 13, no. 4, 2023, pp. 974–989. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.417 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu24.2023.417
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44751
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article deals with the problem of constructing scientific and cultural communication channels of
  the USSR and Czechoslovakia after the “Prague Spring” of 1968 on the example of the opening of the House of
  Soviet Science and Culture in Prague (HSSC). The initiator of this process was the Union of Soviet Friendship
  Societies. It was his offices that became one of the few surviving links of public diplomacy of the USSR after
  1968. Based on archival documents the author shows that the SSOD was integrated into the Soviet political
  system, and its projects in Czechoslovakia were carried out under the control of party and state structures. The
  idea of opening a House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague, which arose in 1969, completely belonged
  to the Soviet side and in practice met with considerable difficulties in its implementation. HSSC was opened
  in 1971 in the presence of the first leaders of the USSR and Czechoslovakia. The images of the achievements
  of socialist science and culture presented in it symbolized the transition to “normalization” in the socio-cultural
  sphere of the two countries. The Soviet leadership recognized this experience as successful and authorized
  the strengthening of the work of Soviet cultural centers around the world as an instrument of Soviet propaganda.
  However, the resources of the USSR were limited and inferiored to its more successful “competitors” from
  capitalist countries. At the same time HSSC opened up new opportunities for travel and informal intercultural
  exchange between scientists, cultural figures and Czechoslovak philistines. Therefore, his activity can be characterized
  as a local experience of Soviet public diplomacy, carried out in the spirit of Brezhnev’s “little deal”
  with Czechoslovakia.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF), project no. 20-78-10053 “Soviet-Czechoslovak
  scientific communications in 1948–1991: transfer of ideas and social practices of scientists”
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 13; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Prague
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Czechoslovakia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: science
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Prague Spring
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: scientific communications
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The House of Soviet Science and Culture in Prague and Soviet Public Diplomacy after the Prague Spring
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metadata.value: Article
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