{"id":26893,"title":"First Time in Moscow","dimensions":"16 x 21 cm","date_begin":"1975-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection MHKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"Monoculture Soviet artefacts Cold War","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003ePublished by Novosti Press Agency Publishing House\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":20,"permalink":"first-time-in-moscow","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/055/medium_500/Image000055.jpg?1598519958","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/061/055/large/Image000055.jpg?1598519958","poster_credits":"scan: (c) M HKA, Published by Novosti Press Agency Publishing House","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1975, and presumably aimed at children across Africa, the book tells the story of a fictional African child called Dudu, who was given a free trip to Moscow as the winner of the contest \u0026#39;Who Knows the Soviet Union Better?\u0026#39;, sponsored by the Novosti Press Agency. Through impressive photographs of views of the Soviet capital along with drawings and short commentaries, the subsequent pages describe the Soviet contribution to Africa, the grandeur of historical and Socialist architecture, Moscow\u0026rsquo;s main attractions filled with crowds of tourist, the role of Soviet forces in the Second World War and the respect towards the founder of the Soviet State, Vladimir Lenin. The story of this young African in Moscow ends with Dudu going to meet his elder brother who is a student at the Patrice Lumumba Friendship University in Moscow. The patronising and romanticised tone of the book makes it a striking example of propaganda material created in the USSR under the \u0026ldquo;International Friendship\u0026rdquo; policy introduced by Khrushchev and which continued through the later Brezhnev era.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFirst Time in Moscow\u003c/em\u003e, gepubliceerd in 1975, en vermoedelijk gericht op kinderen in heel Afrika, vertelt het verhaal van een fictieve Afrikaanse jongen, Dudu, die dankzij de wedstrijd \u0026#39;Who knows the Soviet Union Better?\u0026#39; een gratis reis naar Moskou heeft gewonnen \u0026ndash; gesponsord door persagentschap Novosti. Vergezeld van indrukwekkende foto\u0026#39;s van zichten op Moscou, tekeningen en korte commentaren, volgen pagina\u0026#39;s over de bijdrage van de Sovjet-Unie aan Afrika; de grootsheid van de historische en socialistische architectuur; de belangrijkste attracties van Moskou (boordevol toeristen); de rol van de Sovjettroepen in WOII en, heel respectvol, over de grondlegger van de Sovjetstaat, Vladimir Lenin. Het verhaal van deze jonge Afrikaan in Moskou eindigt met Dudu\u0026#39;s bezoek aan zijn oudere broer, een student aan de Patrice Lumumba Friendship University. Met zijn betuttelende en geromantiseerde toon is het boek een treffend voorbeeld van het propagandamateriaal dat in de USSR werd geproduceerd tijdens de politiek van \u0026#39;internationale vriendschap\u0026#39;, die door Chroesjtsjov werd ge\u0026iuml;ntroduceerd, en die in het daaropvolgende Brezjnev-tijdperk werd verdergezet.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}