ABSTRACT
Zarubin lived up his reputation as a Soviet hard-liner, but he gradually became more open to changes and modifications, no doubt under instructions from Moscow. Perhaps the most important precedence for the exchange was the very successful Fulbright Scholarship Program, in 1946. The Ford Foundation also contributed major resources to funding a large increase in the enrollment of graduate students in advanced interdisciplinary area studies. Eisenhower was a firm supporter of the negotiation efforts from the beginning surprisingly his conservative secretary of state, John Foster Dulles. Crane also financed other groups from Russia during the 1920s: the Danilevsky Church Choir, the Kedrof Quartet, and the Moscow Art Theatre with Konstantin Stanislavsky. A cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union the middle of the Cold War quite a remarkable achievement. The Harvard Crimson first publications herald the possibility of a formal student exchange program its reporting an initial 75-minute meeting between Lacy and Zarubin October 28, 1957.
