IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB952405614

Interference or friendly gestures? Soviet cultural diplomacy and Finnish elections, 1945–56 (2020)

Simo Mikkonen (Author)

Cold War History
Volume: 20
Issue: 3
Pages: 349-365
Publication date: 2020
Language: English

DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2019.1686613

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

In autumn 1944, the Soviet Union and Finland made peace, beginning a complete restructuring of their relations. As a result, Finland became the most important target country in the capitalist West for Soviet cultural diplomacy. The USSR sent numerous top artists to Finland for extensive tours. One objective was to support a peaceful image of the USSR, but, at the same time, these operations were to support the electoral successes of Finnish Communists. This paper examines Soviet cultural diplomacy directed towards Finland. Special attention will be paid to the different motivations behind major actions of Soviet cultural diplomacy in Finland.

...More

Citation URI

data.isiscb.org/p/isis/citation/CBB952405614

This citation is part of the Isis database.

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Nikolas Dörr; (2019)
Die „saubere“ Atombombe. Die Bedeutung der Neutronenwaffe als Projektionsﬂ äche im Kalten Krieg (The “Clean” Atomic Bomb. The Signiﬁcance of Neutron Weaponry as a Projection Screen during the Cold War) (/p/isis/citation/CBB198141177/)

Chapter James T. Andrews; (2016)
Inculcating Materialist Minds: Scientific Propaganda and Anti-Religion in the USSR During the Cold War (/p/isis/citation/CBB394122030/)

Book Saara Matala; (2021)
A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding Between East and West (/p/isis/citation/CBB925661978/)

Book Iina Kohonen; (2017)
Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor (/p/isis/citation/CBB291787050/)

Book Gerovitch, Slava; (2015)
Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity (/p/isis/citation/CBB001553241/)

Article Soyfer, Valery N.; (2011)
Stalin and Fighters against Cellular Theory (/p/isis/citation/CBB001220383/)

Article deJong-Lambert, William; (2011)
The Uses of the Dead in the Science of Life: A Thanatology of Lysenkoism (/p/isis/citation/CBB001220384/)

Article Husband, William B.; (2006)
“Correcting Nature's Mistakes”: Transforming the Environment and Soviet Children's Literature, 1928--1941 (/p/isis/citation/CBB000670191/)

Article Köhler, Piotr; (2011)
Botany and Lysenkoism in Poland (/p/isis/citation/CBB001220380/)

Article Marc andre Matten; (September 2018)
Coping with Invisible Threats: Nuclear Radiation and Science Dissemination in Maoist China (/p/isis/citation/CBB085829669/)

Article Lotta Lounasmeri; Jukka Kortti; (2020)
Campaigning between East and West: Finland and the Cold War in the presidential campaign films of Urho Kekkonen (/p/isis/citation/CBB465535909/)

Article Lepistö, Antti; (2015)
Revisiting the Left-Wing Response to Sociobiology: The Case of Finland in a European Context (/p/isis/citation/CBB001422101/)

Article Igor J. Polianski; Maria Tutorskaya; Oxana Kosenko; (2021)
„Sieben Plagen auf einmal schlagen“ – Theatrale Hygienepropaganda und Infektionskrankheiten in der Sowjetunion der 1920 er–40 er Jahre (/p/isis/citation/CBB209895150/)

Article Caron-Leulliez, Marianne; (2006)
L'Accouchement Sans Douleur. Un enjeu politique en France pendant la guerre froide (/p/isis/citation/CBB000930217/)

Book Starks, Tricia; (2008)
The Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State (/p/isis/citation/CBB001230913/)

Chapter Rockwell, Trevor S.; (2013)
They May Remake Our Image of Mankind: Representations of Cosmonauts and Astronauts in Soviet and American Space Propaganda Magazines, 1961--1981 (/p/isis/citation/CBB001201398/)

Article Georgi Georgiev; (2019)
Cold War Atmosphere: Distorted Information and Facts in the Case of Free Europe Balloons (/p/isis/citation/CBB595787869/)

Article Joanna Walewska‐Choptiany; (2019)
Listening Through the Iron Curtain: RFE and Polish Radio in the “Fog of War” (/p/isis/citation/CBB441884312/)

Article István Rév; (2019)
Neither Objective nor Subjective (/p/isis/citation/CBB495362445/)

Article Simo Mikkonen; (2016)
In the Shadow of Technology: The Anatomy of East–West Scholarly Exchanges in the Late Soviet Period (/p/isis/citation/CBB339221232/)