Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2017
Abstract
The book describes the pro-Soviet orientation of the inter-war European left through an analyses of the system that helped develop it to serve Moscow's foreign policy needs. It describes the spreading sympathies for the USSR among Czechoslovak intellectuals and examines them through a widely commented anthology of travelogues written by Bolshevik sympathizers as well as their critics.
On this basis, the book concludes that for left-wing artists and intellectuals, Soviet Russia represented an attempt to fulfill the revolutionary ideals, an utopian project of a complex socio-political and artistic transformation of the world.