
Cold War Crossings
International Travel and Exchange Across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
Texas A & M University Press
Will be published approx. on 31. March 2014
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-62349-030-0 (ISBN)
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.
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
Illustrations
10 b&w photos. Table. Index.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62349-030-0 (9781623490300)
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Persons
Patryk Babiracki is an assistant professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas-Arlington, USA, and Volkswagen-Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Zentrum fuer Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany.
Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas-Arlington, USA.
Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas-Arlington, USA.
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