Soviet Soft Power in Poland
Patryk Babiracki Soviet Soft Power in Poland Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 Concentrating on the formative years of the Cold War from 1943 to 1957, Patryk Babiracki reveals little-known Soviet efforts to build a postwar East European empire through culture. Babiracki argues that the Soviets involved in foreign cultural outreach tried to use “soft power” in order to galvanize broad support for the...