In this Book
- Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
- Series: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures Series
summary
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-vi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- Contributors
- pp. 211-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9781623491420
Related ISBN(s)
9781623490300
MARC Record
OCLC
879352278
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-07
Language
English
Open Access
No