A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963
@article{Kozovoi2016AFI, title={A foot in the door: the Lacy–Zarubin agreement and Soviet-American film diplomacy during the Khrushchev era, 1953–1963}, author={Andrei Kozovoi}, journal={Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television}, year={2016}, volume={36}, pages={21 - 39} }
Signed in Washington, DC on the 27 January 1958, the Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges – known as the ‘Lacy–Zarubin agreement’ – brought cinema to the forefront of the cold war. It arranged for the organization of premieres, ‘cinema weeks’, visits by Soviet and American delegations, as well as film exchanges and co-productions. A by-product of the era of ‘peaceful coexistence’, the agreement offered the Soviet Union unprecedented opportunities…
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