Origins of People-to-People Diplomacy, U.S. and Russia, 1917-1957

The volume centers on a huge range of bodies involved in private US-Soviet including the YMCA and Fellowship of Reconciliation




The book recounts the trips paid to the USSR by American radicals and artists, including Paul Robeson




The volume concludes with the Cultural Exchange agreement of 1957 involving initiatives by Nikita Khrushchev, Dwight Eisenhower, and numerous go-betweens