The Intelligentsia, Public Opinion and the USSR’s Image in the 1930s
The Intelligentsia, Public Opinion and the USSR’s Image in the 1930s

Summary/Abstract: No other event of the Soviet political life was as broadly mirrored by the international press of all hues as the Stalinist public trials of the mid-1930s. In particular, in the case of French public opinion, these events troubled the leftist intelligentsia, therefore the majority. From big central dailies to insignificant provincial newspapers, all reported extensively on the trials, for the benefit of an audience knowing little about Soviet affairs. The same does not hold for other, much more important but less spectacular topics, such as collectivisation or the dekulakization.

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