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.
| ISBN: | 9781623490300 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2014 |
| Author: | Vladislav Zubok, Patryk Babiracki |
| Publisher: | Texas A & M University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at |
| Genres: |
History and Archaeology Far-left political ideologies and movements |