To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture, by Eleonory Gilburd

Kristen R. Ghodsee learns how Western cultural products imported into the Soviet Union allowed people to travel in their imaginations, despite being physically restricted

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January 17, 2019

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