Beyond the divide : entangled histories of Cold War Europe
"Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of...
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New York Oxford : Berghahn Books,
[2015]
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| Schlagworte: | Transnationalism Cold War Historiography Europa Ost-West-Konflikt Kulturaustausch Transnationale Politik Netzwerk |
| Umfang: | ix, 325 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction: Beyond the divide ; Part I. Political processes and transnational networks Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen
- 1.Opening up political space: informal diplomacy, East-West exchanges, and the Helsinki process Giles Scott-Smith
- 2. Challenging old Cold War stereotypes: the case of Danish-Polish youth exchange and the European detente, 1965-75 Marianne Rostgaard
- 3. Transmitting the "freedom virus": France, the USSR, and cultural aspects of European security cooperation Nicolas Badalassi
- 4. Cultural diplomacy of Switzerland and the challenge of peaceful coexistence, 1956-75 Matthieu Gillabert
- Part II. Interplay in the academic contexts ; 5. Expert groups closing the divide: Estonian-Finnish computing cooperation since the 1960s Sampsa Kaataja
- 6. French-Romanian academic exchanges in the 1960s Beatrice Scutaru
- 7. Hungary opens toward the West: political preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian cooperation in research and development in the 1960s and 1970s Anssi Halmesvirta
- Anssi Halmesvirta ; 8. "Discrete" intermediaries: transnational activities of the Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne, 1966-91 Ioana Popa
- Part III. Limitations for transnational networks ; 9. The image of "real France": instrumentalization of French culture in the early communist Czechoslovakia Václav Šmidrkal
- 10. Dealing with "friends": Soviet Friendship Societies in Western Europe as a challenge for Western diplomacy Sonja Grossmann
- 11, The Soviet Union encounters Anglia: Britain's Russian Magazine as a medium for cross-border communication Sarah Davies
- Part IV. Along the borderlines ; 12. Transnational television in Europe: Cold War competition and cooperation Lars Lundgren
- 13. Transnational spaces between Poland and Finland: the grassroots efforts to dismantle the Iron Curtain and their political entanglements Anna Matyska
- 14. A filter for Western cultural products: the influence of Italian popular culture on Yugoslavia, 1955-65 Francesca Rolandi.