Alternative globalizations : Eastern Europe and the postcolonial world / edited by James Mark, Artemy M.Kalinovsky, and Steffi Marung.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marung, Steffi, éditeur.

Mark, James, éditeur.

Kalinovsky, Artemy M., éditeur.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International economic integration.

Globalization.

Globalization--Former Soviet republics.

Decolonization--Former Soviet republics.

Decolonization.

Soviet Union--Former Soviet republics.

Former Soviet republics--Foreign relations.

Former Soviet republics.

Former Soviet republics--Economic integration.

Europe, Eastern--Foreign relations.

Europe, Eastern.

Genre:

Livres numériques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 314 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the post-war period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing post-war interconnectedness across a socialist world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction / James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, and Steffi Marung

Part 1. Red globalization?

The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and alternative visions of a global economy 1950s-1980s / James Mark and Yakov Feygin

The Cold War in the margins of capital : the Soviet Union's introduction to the decolonized world, 1955-1961 / Oscar Sanchez-Sibony

The Soviet Bloc and China's global opening-up policy during the last years of Mao Zedong / Péter Vámos

From socialist assistance to national self-interest : Vietnamese labor migration into CMEA countries / Alena K. Alamgir and Christina Schwenkel

Part 2. A socialist age of development?

"Socialist development" and East Germany in the Arab Middle East / Massimiliano Trentin

Entangling agrarian modernities : the "agrarian question" through the eyes of Soviet Africanists / Steffi Marung

Socialist worldmaking : architecture and global urbanization in the Cold War / Łukasz Stanek

Part 3. Cultural encounters : discovering similarities, defining difference, creating identities

Writing the Soviet South into the history of the Cold War and decolonization / Artemy M. Kalinovsky

Internationalizing the thaw : Soviet orientalists and the contested politics of spiritual solidarity in Asia 1954-1959 / Hanna Jansen

Soviet antiracism and its discontents : the Cold War years / Maxim Matusevich

Southeast by Global South : the Balkans, UNESCO, and the Cold War / Bogdan C. Iacob

Part 4. Global encounter and challenges to state socialism

A prehistory of postcolonialism in socialist Poland / Adam F. Kola

Competing solidarities? Solidarność and the Global South during the 1980s / Kim Christiaens and Idesbald Goddeeris

China is not far! Alternative internationalism and the Tiananmen Square Massacre in East Germany's 1989 / Quinn Slobodian

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253046529

0253046521

9780253046536 (electronic book)

025304653X

OCLC:

1137183180