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Abstract <p>In the fall of 1927, the Soviet Union celebrated the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. The celebration turned into a propaganda campaign with the aim to demonstrate the “achievements of the proletariat” and improve Bolsheviks’ reputation in the international arena. To this end, foreign political and cultural figures, mainly the Left, were invited, who were expected to present what they had seen to their compatriots in the best light. Several people from the Serbian Civil <i>Levica</i> went to the Soviet Union, including the writer Dragiša Vasić and the sculptor Sreten Stojanović, who later published their travel notes. These works are of interest when considered in the context of such a historical phenomenon as centuries-old Russia–Serbia relations. Stojanović’s assertion that Soviet “Moscow is the center of the world” makes one think about the bizarre transformation of traditional Serbian Russophilia in the minds of interwar leftists. Critical of tsarism as well as of their own political establishment, they projected their idealized ideas of Russia, based mainly on Russian classical literature, onto the first socialist state. The latter, of course, was contrasted with the “decaying West.” It is interesting to compare what both authors wrote with the Moscow impressions of European left-wing intellectuals who sympathized with the Soviet Union.</p>

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“Moscow Is the Center of the World”: Russophilia of the Serbian Levica: The 1920s

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    2025年6月23日

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  • A. A. Silkin

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Abstract

In the fall of 1927, the Soviet Union celebrated the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution. The celebration turned into a propaganda campaign with the aim to demonstrate the “achievements of the proletariat” and improve Bolsheviks’ reputation in the international arena. To this end, foreign political and cultural figures, mainly the Left, were invited, who were expected to present what they had seen to their compatriots in the best light. Several people from the Serbian Civil Levica went to the Soviet Union, including the writer Dragiša Vasić and the sculptor Sreten Stojanović, who later published their travel notes. These works are of interest when considered in the context of such a historical phenomenon as centuries-old Russia–Serbia relations. Stojanović’s assertion that Soviet “Moscow is the center of the world” makes one think about the bizarre transformation of traditional Serbian Russophilia in the minds of interwar leftists. Critical of tsarism as well as of their own political establishment, they projected their idealized ideas of Russia, based mainly on Russian classical literature, onto the first socialist state. The latter, of course, was contrasted with the “decaying West.” It is interesting to compare what both authors wrote with the Moscow impressions of European left-wing intellectuals who sympathized with the Soviet Union.