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Cold War crossings : international travel and exchange across the Soviet bloc, 1940s-1960s / edited by Patryk Babiracki and Kenyon Zimmer ; introduction by Vladislav Zubok ; contributors: Michael David-Fox, Patryk Babiracki, Nick Rutter, Elidor M{eumlhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; Number 45.
- Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture ; number forty-five
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exchange of persons programs, Soviet--History.
- Exchange of persons programs, Soviet.
- Soviet Union--Relations.
- Soviet Union.
- Communist countries--Relations.
- Communist countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station, [Texas] : University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- The Iron Curtain as semipermeable membrane: origins and demise of the Stalinist superiority complex / Michael David-Fox
- The taste of red watermelon: Polish peasants visit Soviet collective farms, 1949-1952 / Patryk Babiracki
- The Western wall: the Iron Curtain recast in midsummer 1951 / Nick Rutter
- Socialist encounters: Albania and the transnational Eastern Bloc in the 1950's / Elidor Mëhilli
- The Soviet-South encounter: tensions in the friendship with Afro-Asian partners, 1945-1965 / Constantin Katsakioris
- Meeting at a far meridian: American-Soviet cultural diplomacy on film in the early Cold War / Marsha Siefert.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62349-142-8
- OCLC:
- 879352278
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