Red Money for the Global South

Max Trecker is at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, Germany. He is currently working on privatization in Eastern Europe in the 1990s.

"The book looks at the motivation of communist and postcolonial elites for cooperation, the interplay of ideology and pragmatic economic policies on the ground, and questions to what extent these economic interactions differed from the colonially inflected capitalist trade relations. What makes this contribution stand out, however, is a crisscrossed view of CMEA from various national archives amounting to a genuinely transnational perspective on the planned economies in Eastern Europe.The book represents an excellent overview of East-South economic exchange during the Cold War. Red Money for the Global South is an important milestone in research heading beyond single case studies of bilateral relations toward a more comprehensive, interconnected transnational study of "socialist globalization."-Goran Music, H-Soz-Kult

• Introduction; Part One: Inner Integration and First Contacts with the South; 1. The Dawn of the CMEA; 2 Decolonization and the reaction of the East; Part Two: The Complex-Program; 3 The Reforms of 1971; 4 The Allure of the West: Disintegration in the East? 5 Power and Dissent; Part Three: Red Globalization; 6 Expansion of the CMEA; 7 The View of the South; Part Four: Financial Schockwaves; 8 The Crisis of the 1980s; 9 Who belongs to the "Third World", who to the "Second"? Mutual Dependencies; 10 Gorbachev, India, and the CMEA; Conclusion