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Professor Sarah Davies' Outputs (19)

From Iron Curtain to velvet curtain? Peter Brook’s Hamlet and the origins of British-Soviet cultural relations during the Cold War (2018)
Journal Article
Davies, S. (2018). From Iron Curtain to velvet curtain? Peter Brook’s Hamlet and the origins of British-Soviet cultural relations during the Cold War. Contemporary European History, 27(4), 601-626. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0960777318000395

The article assesses the significance of the Moscow tour of Peter Brook's Hamlet. It considers how far the tour succeeded in overcoming the symbolic iron curtain by examining what Hamlet meant for contemporaries on both sides of the political divide.... Read More about From Iron Curtain to velvet curtain? Peter Brook’s Hamlet and the origins of British-Soviet cultural relations during the Cold War.

The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR (2013)
Journal Article
Davies, S. (2013). The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR. Contemporary British History, 27(3), 297-323. https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2013.794695

This article contributes to the growing literature on the cultural Cold War through an exploration of the British national projection magazine Anglia, produced by the Foreign Office for distribution in the USSR from 1962 to 1992. As well as drawing a... Read More about The Soft Power of Anglia: British Cold War Cultural Diplomacy in the USSR.

Stalin: A New History (2005)
Book
Davies, S., & Harris, J. (Eds.). (2005). Stalin: A New History. Cambridge University Press

Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936 (2005)
Book Chapter
Davies, S. (2005). Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936. In S. Davies, & J. Harris (Eds.), Stalin : a new history (202-225). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511614897.014

At his two well-known meetings with writers at Gorky's home in October 1932, Stalin encouraged his audience to focus on writing plays, which he believed to be most accessible to workers: ‘Poems are good. Novels are even better. But at the moment more... Read More about Stalin as patron of cinema: creating Soviet mass culture 1932-1936.

Joseph Stalin: power and ideas (2005)
Book Chapter
Davies, S., & Harris, J. (2005). Joseph Stalin: power and ideas. In S. Davies, & J. Harris (Eds.), Stalin : a new history (1-17). Cambridge University Press

The recent declassification of a substantial portion of Stalin's archive has made possible this fundamental new assessment of the controversial Soviet leader. Leading international experts accordingly challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his... Read More about Joseph Stalin: power and ideas.

Stalin and the making of the leader cult in the 1930s (2004)
Book Chapter
Davies, S. (2004). Stalin and the making of the leader cult in the 1930s. In B. Apor, J. Behrends, P. Jones, & E. Rees (Eds.), The leader cult in communist dictatorships : Stalin and the Eastern Bloc (29-46). Palgrave Macmillan

Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia. Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941 (1997)
Book
Davies, S. (1997). Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia. Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941. Cambridge University Press

Between 1934 and 1941 Stalin unleashed what came to be known as the 'Great Terror' against millions of Soviet citizens. The same period also saw the 'Great Retreat', the repudiation of many of the aspirations of the Russian Revolution. The response o... Read More about Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia. Terror, Propaganda and Dissent, 1934-1941.