To See Paris and Die

How do we explain the influx of Western culture to the Soviet Union?

Clem Cecil talks with Eleonory Gilburd, author of ‘To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture’. The Soviet Union was a notoriously closed society until Stalin's death in 1953. Then, in the mid-1950s, a torrent of Western novels, films, and paintings invaded Soviet streets and homes, acquiring heightened emotional significance.

This podcast episode was edited and produced for Pushkin House by Borimir Totev. Listen here on the Pushkin House website, on Apple podcasts, or via Acast.