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

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CONTENTS Preface ix Introduction 1 Vladislav Zubok 1 The Iron Curtain as Semipermeable Membrane: Origins and Demise of the Stalinist Superiority Complex Michael David-Fox 14 2 The Taste of Red Watermelon: Polish Peasants Visit Soviet Collective Patryk Babiracki 40 3 The Western Wall: The Iron Curtain Recast in Midsummer 1951 Nick Rutter 78 4 Socialist Encounters: Albania and the Transnational Eastern Bloc in Elidor Mëhilli 107 5 The Soviet-South Encounter: Tensions in the Friendship with Afro-Asian Partners, 1945–1965 Constantin Katsakioris 134 6 Meeting at a Far Meridian: US-Soviet Cultural Diplomacy on Film in the Early Cold War Marsha Siefert 166 Contributors 211 Index 215 Farms, 1949–1952 the 1950s ...