Vladimir Paperny. "War and Exhibitions: How Nikita Khrushchev Wanted to Fool Richard Nixon at the 1959 Exhibition of Economic Achievements in Moscow, and What Came out of It.
In 1834, Prussian general and war theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously said: "War is the continuation of politics by other means." In 2015, architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen paraphrased von Clausewitz: "Exhibitions are a continuation of war by other means". Among multiple examples of confrontations at international exhibitions are the Soviet and German pavilions at the 1937 Paris Expo and the 1959 exhibition exchange between the USSR and the USA.
Vladimir Paperny graduated from the Stroganov Art Academy in Moscow with MA in Design. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities. His PhD thesis Architecture in the Age of Stalin. Culture Two was later published in Russian, English, Czech, and Italian. The French edition is scheduled for next year. Since moving to the US in 1981, Dr. Paperny was visiting professor and lecturer at USC, UCLA, Bristol University, UK, and other American and European universities. He received grants and stayed at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1984 and 2008. In addition to his teaching and writing (both academic and fiction), Dr. Paperny continues his work as designer and filmmaker.