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 Mëhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert.
"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 s...
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College Station :
Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;
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Table of 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 1950s / 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.