%0 Journal Article
%T French and British Female Intellectuals and the Soviet Union. The Journey to the USSR, 1929 ¨C 1942
%A Angela KERSHAW
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2006
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.250
%X The question of why intellectuals between the wars were fascinated by the USSR has been extensively debated by intellectual historians of both France and Britain. According to Neal Wood, ¡°the ¡®ultimate explanation¡¯ of the appeal of communism is forever concealed from rational inquiry in the minds and hearts of many diverse individuals¡± (9), but rational inquiry can reveal a collective, cultural fascination through analysis of individual textual residues. Paul Hollander argues that pro-Soviet ...
%U http://erea.revues.org/250