{"id":5226,"date":"2015-04-08T10:17:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T14:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T19:14:28","slug":"soviet-youth-sets-out-on-a-new-heroic-and-revolutionary-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/04\/08\/soviet-youth-sets-out-on-a-new-heroic-and-revolutionary-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviet youth sets out on a &#8216;new, heroic and revolutionary path&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Soviet Leadership, the 1957 Moscow World Festival of Youth and Students was a prime opportunity to illustrate the Soviet Union as &#8220;an international, active, peace-loving population that was collectively committed to promoting an alternative to American exploitation around the world.&#8221; The festival contributors were depended upon to exhibit Soviet Youth as superior, having admirable ethics and awareness. These youth were not only expected to convey these ideals, but also give the impression to the world delegates that they were invigorated by the memorandum in Khrushchev\u2019s 20<sup>th<\/sup> Party Congress speech and embody \u201cSoviet openness and international mobilization.\u201d The Youth was supposed to present these sentiments and ideals as \u201cparticipants who were acting of their own free will\u201d as a means to revise the public assumption of a forcible Soviet government. Margaret Peacock portrays the 1957 festival as endeavoring to \u201creplace older Stalinist visions of grateful, insulated Soviet youngsters with new images of well educated, independent, creative and activist youth\u201d competent of international opposition with capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Soviet Leadership, the 1957 Moscow World Festival of Youth and Students was a prime opportunity to illustrate the Soviet Union as &#8220;an international, active, peace-loving population that was collectively committed to promoting an alternative to American exploitation around the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2015\/04\/08\/soviet-youth-sets-out-on-a-new-heroic-and-revolutionary-path\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1929,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110561,51180],"tags":[110731,20068,22756,110739,110732],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hist254-archive","category-miscellaneous","tag-1957-moscow-world-fair","tag-cold-war","tag-khrushchev","tag-soviet-leadership","tag-soviet-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}