title: “See. Understand. Fall in Love”: The Soviet Foreign Tourism and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War
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metadata.value: Popov, A. D.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-01-29T15:53:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-01-29T15:53:15Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Popov A. D. “See. Understand. Fall in Love”: The Soviet Foreign Tourism and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War, Modern History of Russia, no. 4, 2017, pp. 148–160.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.411
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9005
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the article the author analyses the use of foreign tourism as one of instruments of public
  diplomacy directed to promoting of the Soviet project abroad during the Cold War. The main mission
  of foreign tourism of the post-war period has kept continuity with the pre-war period; however
  it was implemented in the conditions of a repeated increase in tourist streams. It was necessary
  not only to involve foreigners in travel across the USSR, but also to convince them of absolute advantage
  of the socialist system and Soviet way of life. Then positive guests’ responses must be
  recorded to provide their maximum information resonance. “Intourist” was the main coordinator of
  the Soviet “techniques of hospitality” (P. Hollander) in relation to foreign tourists in the 1950–1980s
  and it closely interacted with various government institutions and public organizations. For drawing
  attention to travel to the USSR exhibitions, festivals, trips of the famous writers, journalists, artists,
  athletes were used. But in the conditions of informational opposition with the West, the Soviet Union
  had no opportunity to provide mass positive reviews about these trips in capitalist mass media, thus
  reducing the possibility of influence on public opinion abroad. In the activity of “Intourist”, advertising
  tourist services and promotion of the Soviet Union were inseparably linked, which allows one to
  consider this organization in the context of public diplomacy. In the West, however, for this reason
  the logic of the Cold War prompted negative estimates and restrictions complicating the performance
  of “Intourist’s” external ideological mission.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: Исследование выполнено за счет гранта Российского научного фонда (проект № 16-18-10213).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Issue 4(21)
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Intourist
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Public Diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Propaganda
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Foreign Tourism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “See. Understand. Fall in Love”: The Soviet Foreign Tourism and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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