John C. Q. Roberts

Speak Clearly Into the Chandelier (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Politics between Britain and Russia 1973-2000

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique view of British-Russian relations during the last fifteen years of the Soviet regime and thereafter into the post-communist era. As Director of a Foreign-Office-funded organisation promoting professional, intellectual and cultural contacts between Britain and Russia, Roberts earned the trust of leading figures in both countries. At the same time he had to maintain cross-party support in Parliament and the confidence of his Whitehall paymasters. These last occasionally proved as obstructive as the Soviet organisations - all opposed to unfettered contact with western people and ideas - with which he had to maintain a modus operandi. Undeterred by Cold War rhetoric, the author contrived to break down barriers and to earn the trust and gratitude of writers, musicians, theatre and film directors, scientists and even politicians. This is their eye-witness history, no less than his.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317849315
• Artikelnr.: 55170766

Autorenporträt

John C. Q. Roberts

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
One: The Terrain
One: Initiation
Two: Portrait of a Soviet Cultural Attaché
Three: Conferences at Cross-purposes
Four: Two Festivals
Five: A Tale of Two Spas
Two: Mainly Culture
Six: Scenes from Theatre Life (1)
Seven: Musical Interlude
Eight: Scenes from Theatre Life (2)
Nine: Writers' Rites
Ten: On Screen
Three: Mostly Politics
Eleven: Harold Wilson for President
Twelve: Two More Festivals
Thirteen: Taking Hold of Change
Fourteen: End of an Era