TY  - BOOK
AU  - McFadden,David W.
TI  - Origins of people-to-people diplomacy, U.S. and Russia, 1917-1957
T2  - Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe
SN  - 9781003190967
U1  - 327.73047 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Cultural diplomacy
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Cold War
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - Relations
KW  - Citizen participation
N1  - Early American Contacts with Soviet Russia -- Quakers and Bolsheviks, 1917-1931 -- Social Gospel Origins -- YMCA, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Study Trips -- The 1930s: Fellow Travelers, Social Workers, Entrepreneurs, and Engineers -- 1940s and 1950s: From the Grand Alliance to the Cultural Agreement -- Looking Forward
N2  - "Although there have been many studies of U.S.-Soviet diplomacy in the 20th century, most explorations of people-to-people diplomacy begin in the 1980s and to not take into account the early contacts in the revolutionary period and 1920s. This study explores in greater depth the religious figures, radical activists, entrepreneurs, engineers, social workers and others in both the U.S. and the Soviet Union who reached across the barriers of ideology and culture and history to forge tentative but real human connections in an attempt to further better understanding between the two countries. All of these efforts prefigured the much more heralded "citizen diplomacy" efforts of the 1980s, which helped end the cold war"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003190967
ER  -