Approaching the early decades of the ?Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach personal, technological, and cultural on the population and politics of the Soviet bloc. Several authors analyze lesser-known complications of East-West exchange; others show the contradictory nature of Moscow’s efforts to consolidate its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and in the Third World.
An outgrowth of the forty-sixth annual Walter Prescott Webb Lectures, hosted in 2011 by the University of Texas at Arlington, Cold War Crossings features diverse focuses with a unifying theme.
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1 The Iron Curtain as Semipermeable Membrane: Origins and Demise of the Stalinist Superiority Complex |
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2 The Taste of Red Watermelon: Polish Peasants Visit Soviet Collective Farms, 1949--1952 |
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3 The Western Wall: The Iron Curtain Recast in Midsummer 1951 |
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4 Socialist Encounters: Albania and the Transnational Eastern Bloc in the 1950s |
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5 The Soviet-South Encounter: Tensions in the Friendship with Afro-Asian Partners, 1945--1965 |
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6 Meeting at a Far Meridian: US-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy on Film in the Early Cold War |
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Patryk Babiracki is an assistant professor in Russian and East European history at the University of TexasArlington, USA, and VolkswagenAndrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany.
Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of TexasArlington, USA.
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