Agitating Abroad: Soviet Wartime Reporting and Allied Relationships

• In Event: Propagating Soviet Socialism West and East during World War II

Abstract

World War II saw an explosion of journalism in the Soviet Union, as prominent writers turned to publicism and reporting. A select amount of this material, carefully selected by TASS and Sovinformbiuro, was also published abroad for foreign consumption. At the same time, the war saw TASS bring official correspondents from Moscow to New York and DC for the first time. This paper will explore how Soviet writers and journalists played key roles in attempting to generate good will and support for the Soviet Union abroad. It will consider both the international publication of publicism and other reports by prominent writers such as Ilya Ehrenburg, and the work of TASS correspondents in New York and DC.

Author

• Erina Megowan, Northeastern U