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Aleksander Yakovlevich Arosev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Аро́сев; 6 June [O.S. 25 June] 1890 – 10 February 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet diplomat and writer.
Jan 27, 2017 · This article examines variegated depictions of Europe and the west produced in the 1920s and 1930s by Aleksandr Iakovlevich Arosev, an Old Bolshevik cultural official, writer, and diplomat.
Aug 18, 2017 · At the House of Government there was silence. “Everyone talks as if nothing has happened,” Aleksandr Arosev wrote in his diary.
As an official immersed in Soviet international cultural propaganda and diplomacy, the head of the All-Union Society for Cultural Ties Abroad (VOKS) from 1934 to 1937, Arosev traveled frequently to Europe during the years of the Popular Front.
- Michael David-Fox
Nevertheless, the role of key Soviet intermediaries (including Ilya Ehrenburg, Aleksandr Arosev, and Ivan Maiskii) was crucial in this process, as were the conventions of Soviet “friendship.”
Aleksandr Arosev (Apts 103 and 104), was in the Sosny rest home on the Moskva, writing in his diary. “In today’s papers we read that Kamenev, Zinoviev, Panaev, Mrachkovsky, Evdoki-mov, Ter-Vaganian, I. N. Smirnov Reingold, Goltsman, M. Lurye, N. Lurye, Dreitser, Olberg, and Perman-Yurgin have all been sentenced – to be shot.
By February 1938, a dozen senior VOKS officers were arrested, the ambitious chairman and ‘Stalinist westernizer’ Aleksandr Arosev executed and the. O. Paavolainen, Risti ja hakaristi: Uuutta maailmankuvaa kohti (‘Cross and Swastika: Towards a New World View’, Jyväskylä and Helsinki 1938), 7.
