02302nam 2200409 450 991064594850332120230511070627.0(CKB)5860000000285445(NjHacI)995860000000285445(EXLCZ)99586000000028544520230511d2022 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPerforming Peace and Friendship The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy /Pia KoivunenMünchen :De Gruyter Oldenbourg,2022.©20221 online resource (viii, 303 pages) illustrationsRethinking the Cold War3-11-076138-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev's Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots' perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world.Rethinking the Cold War (Berlin, Germany)Cold WarYouth and warCold War.Youth and war.909.825Koivunen Pia1273008NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910645948503321Performing Peace and Friendship2999018UNINA