Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s

Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
ISBN-10
1623491428
ISBN-13
9781623491420
Category
History
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
2014-03-20
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Authors
Kenyon Zimmer, Patryk Babiracki

Description

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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