After World War II, the success of Soviet efforts in economic development and scientific progress set an example for the newly independent countries of Asia and Africa. In the 1950s, both the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in development policies in the Third World to prove the universality of their rival “models of modernity.” India stood out as one of the most important Third World countries because of its geographical position, large population, and leadership in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). In the 1950s, the NAM confused the Americans, but was praised by the Soviet leadership as a progressive anti-imperialist movement. Soviet theorists of development claimed that only industrialized countries could resist Western domination and therefore designed a program of economic aid for India. The Indo-Soviet joint project of the Bhilai Steel Plant, launched in 1955, became a symbol of the Indo-Soviet special relationship termed as “friendship” between the two countries. The...
Soviet teachers of Russian in Indian universities in the late 1950s and early 1960s
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During the 1950s, the Soviet Union and India established relations termed as “friendship” involving cultural exchange, development aid and trade. To support its political and economic cooperation with India, Moscow launched a large-scale public diplomacy campaign. Teaching Russian became one of the core elements of this effort. The article examines the experiences of the first Soviet teachers of Russian at Indian universities and explores the Soviet Union’s efforts to promote its socialist version of modernity through language classes. As the paper argues, even though these teachers had no special training in propaganda, they sought to promote the Soviet Union’s socialist ideas in many ways. This provoked reactions from Indian university and government officials who saw the classes of Soviet teachers as an instrument to carry out communist propaganda.
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Severyan Dyakonov, „Soviet teachers of Russian in Indian universities in the late 1950s and early 1960s“, Cahiers du monde russe, 63/3-4 | 2022, 599-618.
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Severyan Dyakonov, „Soviet teachers of Russian in Indian universities in the late 1950s and early 1960s“, Cahiers du monde russe [Online], 63/3-4 | 2022, Online erschienen am: 04 Januar 2025, abgerufen am 29 März 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/monderusse/13269; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/monderusse.13269
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