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British public organizations and a phenomena of public diplomacy during Soviet-British cultural "indian summer" on the edge of 1950s-1960-s
| The paper is based on results of two years research in Russian and British archives and a series of oral interviews from witnesses of cultural and tourist exchanges with Soviet Union in the end of 1950s- beginning of 1960-s. The task was to analyze and estimate the long abandoned beyond ideological and military confrontation of the cold war period initiatives, which grew not from the top, but from the bottom – i.e. non-governmental, unofficial contacts and initiatives which flourished during the short period of “Indian summer” in Soviet-British relations of 1956-1963. The aim was to show a level of correlation between the “high politics” and “public diplomacy”.
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