"BASKET ON KALININA": TO THE QUESTION ABOUT ACTIVITIES HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP WITH PEOPLES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN THE 1950-1960-IES
This article attempts to study the Activities of the house of friendship with the peoples of foreign countries in the 1950s and 1960s, which arose during the revival of international exchange between the USSR and foreign countries. The phenomenon of “thaw” in Soviet culture was marked not only by the emergence of new characters and subjects in literature and cinema, on the stage, new styles of painting, but also by the increase in cultural cooperation of the Soviet Union with the socialist and capitalist countries. The house of friendship with the peoples of foreign countries took a worthy place in this exchange, becoming the venue for a number of exhibitions and meetings, perhaps, absolutely impossible in other Moscow museums because of the avant-garde nature of its exhibits.