Abstract
From its launch in World War II, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (NCASF) championed the use of American art as cultural diplomacy. Although the deterioration of US-Soviet relations would obscure the council’s wartime success and precipitate its designation as a subversive organization, the NCASF continued to operate throughout the Cold War. Using unpublished archival sources from the US and Russia, this essay reveals how marginalized social realist artists rejected postwar developments in the US in favor of cultivating closer ties with the USSR, presenting an alternative history of Soviet-American artistic exchange that calls into question many of the popular narratives of the cultural Cold War.
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