Kharitonova, Natalia <br/><br/>
The intellectuals at the service of the Spanish Republic: the travel of Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León 

 -  2018.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The paper reconstructs the travel which Rafael Alberti and Maria Teresa León took in 1937 to Moscow, achieving the Soviet authorization for the Congress of Antifascist Writers in Spain. The story of this visit shows that the role of foreign writers who visited Russia did not reduce to passive perception of Soviet propaganda. Writers also could be active participants in the political process.