American visitors to USSR

[Romy Taylor]

Kara Lynch's "Black Russians."

Also of interest are memoirs by Homer Smith and Robert Robinson.

Yours
Romy Taylor

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Princeton's own Charles Townsend was a host at the American National Exhibit
in Moscow in 1959, where the famous Kitchen Debate occurred.  During his
stays in Russia he also managed to visit an aunt who, supportive of the
Communist cause, had emigrated from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R.  Someone should
induce him and others with similarly interesting stories to write them
down - an anthology of American views of the U.S.S.R. from the inside would
be well received, if the discussion here is any indication.  Also worth
mentioning is a film by a young filmmaker that was shown here at Princeton a
year or two ago.  It is a documentary about blacks in Russia today, most of
whom are the children of black Americans who emigrated to the U.S.S.R. in
search of social equality.  Can't remember the title of the movie - maybe
someone else knows?

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