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

By Kenyon Zimmer , Patryk Babiracki

Book information

Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1623490308, 9781623490300
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1678089 bytes)
Series
Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
Pages
240\242
Time added
2017-06-11 21:27:05
Europe;Belgium;France;Germany;Great Britain;Greenl

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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