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18 produkter
Planning in Cold War Europe
Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s)
Av Michel Christian, Sandrine Kott m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
2017 kr
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The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during …
Beyond Boycotts
Sport during the Cold War in Europe
Av Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1523 kr
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Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games. Our goal …
Machineries of Persuasion
European Soft Power and Public Diplomacy during the Cold War
Av Óscar J. Martín García, Rósa Magnúsdóttir
Inbunden, 2019
1551 kr
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Over the last two decades, public diplomacy has become a central area of research within Cold War studies. Yet, this field has been dominated by studies of the United States' soft power practices. However, the so-called 'cultural dimension' of the Cold war was a much more multifaceted phenomenon. …
Entangled East and West
Cultural Diplomacy and Artistic Interaction during the Cold War
Av Simo Mikkonen, Giles Scott-Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1475 kr
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Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years.This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic …
Globalization of an Educational Idea
Workers’ Faculties in Eastern Germany, Vietnam, Cuba and Mozambique
Av Ingrid Miethe, Tim Kaiser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1610 kr
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In this book, authors showcase the worldwide spread of Workers’ Faculties as an example of both cooperation between socialist countries in education, and globalization processes in the field of education. Based on extensive research carried out in Cuban, German, Mozambican, and Vietnamese archives …
Outside the "Comfort Zone"
Performances and Discourses of Privacy in Late Socialist Europe
Av Tatiana Klepikova, Lukas Raabe
Inbunden, 2020
1551 kr
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Traditionally, privacy studies have focused on the liberal democratic societies of the global West, whereas non-democratic contexts have played a marginal role in the discussion of the private and public spheres, not in the least because of the political stances of the Cold War era. This volume …
Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints
Global Entanglements of Socialist Architecture and Planning in the Cold War Period
Av Christoph Bernhardt, Andreas Butter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1484 kr
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Until the end of the Cold War in 1990, building projects and architectural icons played an important role in the self-portrayal of the competing systems. However, as the current research shows, we also find a large variety of forms of cooperation between the East, the South, and the West, not to …
Breaking Down Bipolarity
Yugoslavia's Foreign Relations during the Cold War
Inbunden, 2021
1441 kr
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This book is aimed at presenting fresh views, interpretations, and reinterpretations of some already researched issues relating to the Yugoslav foreign policy and international relations up to year 1991. Yugoslavia positioned itself as a communist state that was not under the heel of the Soviet …
Transnational Imaginations of Socialism
Town Twinning and Local Government in “Red” Italy and the GDR
Inbunden, 2022
1624 kr
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Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, …
Holocaust Memory and the Cold War
Remembering across the Iron Curtain
Inbunden, 2024
1748 kr
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Even before World War II had ended, survivors, historians, writers, and artists tried to make sense of the Holocaust. To do so, they relied on belief systems and narratives that, as the bloc confrontation intensified, were increasingly shaped by Cold War thinking. Foregrounding the Cold War’s role …
Beyond Boycotts
Sport during the Cold War in Europe
Av Philippe Vonnard, Nicola Sbetti m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool of "soft power" during the Olympic games. Our goal …
Letters from Prague
1947–1957
Av Eleanor Wheeler, Doubravka Olšáková
Inbunden, 2022
1752 kr
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Eleanor M. Wheeler, a correspondent for the Religious News Service, wrote letters from Prague to her friends in the USA from 1947 to 1957. Her husband, George Shaw Wheeler, was a colonel in the US Army and the chief of the de-Nazification section of the Manpower Division of the Office of the …
Planning in Cold War Europe
Competition, Cooperation, Circulations (1950s-1970s)
Av Michel Christian, Sandrine Kott m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
460 kr
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The idea of planning economy and engineering social life has often been linked with Communist regimes’ will of control. However, the persuasion that social and economic processes could and should be regulated was by no means limited to them. Intense debates on these issues developed already during …
Performing Peace and Friendship
The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
Av Pia Koivunen
Inbunden, 2022
1484 kr
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Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet …
Traversing the Political Divide
Cross-Border Workers in Cold War Europe
Av Sarah Lemmen
Inbunden, 2025
1383 kr
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During the Cold War, and despite the contrary image of relative seclusion suggested by states and political blocs, diverse groups of workers crossed for professional reasons not only national borders, but also moved from one political system to another. For shorter or longer periods of time, …
Shared Images
A History of American Art in the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Inbunden, 2025
1177 kr
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Who organized numerous exhibitions of American art in the Cold War Soviet Union – and why? Did Americans truly want to “subvert” the Soviet regime with abstraction, and were the Soviets really “afraid” of non-figurative art? And, most noteworthy, can we adequately assess the role of art as a …
Crossing the Iron Curtain
Western Students in Mao’s China (1949–1976)
Av Longfei Xing
Inbunden, 2025
1281 kr
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During the Cold War, an invisible “iron curtain” divided the Western world from Maoist China. What motives lay behind the façade of educational exchange? This book explores the experiences of Western students in China from 1949 to 1976, revealing how education functioned as a strategic tool of …
Voice of the Silenced Peoples in the Global Cold War
The Assembly of Captive European Nations, 1954-1972
Inbunden, 2020
1806 kr
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According to its members, exiled political leaders from nine east European countries, the ACEN was an umbrella organization—a quasi-East European parliament in exile—composed of formerly prominent statesmen who strove to maintain the case of liberation of Eastern Europe from the Soviet yoke on the …
