| Popis: |
Approaching Earls Court exhibition centre in the summer of 1968, visitors would have been struck by the bold initials ‘USSR’ on the familiar facade (fig. 20.1). They heralded the second of three Soviet ‘Industrial Exhibitions’, staged in 1961, 1968 and 1979, which brought striking Soviet cultural propaganda to London on a vast scale. Whereas the reciprocal British trade fairs in Moscow of 1961 and 1966 were based on expanding AngloSoviet commercial contacts and eschewed blatant propaganda, th... |
