title: “If friends Find it Advisable to Put Forward… We Will Support”: the International Lenin Peace Prizes in the System of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
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metadata.value: Nagornaya, O. S.
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metadata.value: 2018-10-23T16:07:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-10-23T16:07:25Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-09
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metadata.value: Nagornaya O. S. ‘“If friends Find it Advisable to Put Forward… We Will Support”: the International Lenin Peace Prizes in the System of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 8, no. 3, 2018, pp. 737–753.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2018.313
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/14991
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metadata.value: This article is dedicated to the study of the institutional history of the International Lenin Peace
  Prize Committee with the aim of reconstructing the specificity of the soviet cultural diplomacy: the formation
  and broadcasting of peace-making passwords and methods of influence on the international community, the
  receptions of the soviet symbolic messages by target groups. As the source base, the author made use of archive
  documents and published materials of party and state bodies, press and journalism, citizens’ letters. As the
  methodological foundation of the analysis emerged the approaches and methods of global and transnational
  history, cultural history. The largely scaled staged project of Lenin’s (Stalin’s) Peace Prizes promoted by the
  USSR as the alternative of the Nobel Prize, was used for the aims of positioning the idea of “the soviet-style
  peacemaking”, the symbolic encouragement of the loyalty to the socialist camp of the remarkable aсtors of the
  Cold war, the conflicts moderation in the satellites countries, symbolic mobilization of their own population. The
  period of legal registration of the Committee’s activity coincided with the crisis of the pre-war cultural diplomacy’s
  structures under the conditions of the necessity of the Soviet Union’s representation as the winning country. The
  external image and the internal discussions of the Committee were burdened by the question of self-dependence and freedom of decisions. The internal documentation gives evidence of the soviet party bodies’ using not only
  the means of open pressure on the Committee members, but also their manipulating the body, which included
  the loyal to the USSR representatives of the international community. As the indirect means of the impact served
  the conditions of the committee members’ admission as well as its representatives’ instruction among the soviet
  public figures. The laureates of the Lenin Peace Prize became important links in the USSR’s cultural diplomatic
  networks. Their international authority was intensely used with the aim of the foreign policy representations of the
  soviet position in different regions of the world for strengthening the position of the certain leader. The reception
  of the honours project by ordinary citizens of different countries reflected the reaction of the contradiction of the
  soviet peace-building discourse as well as incomprehension of fast-moving often populist and inconsistent turns
  of the soviet foreign policy.
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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
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 8; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: transnational history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soviet cultural diplomacy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cold war
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lenin Peace Prize
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: international relations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: soft power
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: event-management
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: “If friends Find it Advisable to Put Forward… We Will Support”: the International Lenin Peace Prizes in the System of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
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metadata.value: Article
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