03492nam 2200649 450 991080966670332120230803221138.01-62349-142-8(CKB)2550000001263271(EBL)1666600(SSID)ssj0001181244(PQKBManifestationID)11778589(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181244(PQKBWorkID)11144885(PQKB)10528510(MiAaPQ)EBC1666600(OCoLC)879352278(MdBmJHUP)muse33566(Au-PeEL)EBL1666600(CaPaEBR)ebr10857849(CaONFJC)MIL589484(OCoLC)876512880(EXLCZ)99255000000126327120140427h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCold War crossings international travel and exchange across the Soviet bloc, 1940s-1960s /edited by Patryk Babiracki and Kenyon Zimmer ; introduction by Vladislav Zubok ; contributors: Michael David-Fox, Patryk Babiracki, Nick Rutter, Elidor M{eumlhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha SiefertFirst edition.College Station, [Texas] :University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (242 p.)Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture ;number forty-fiveIncludes bibliographical references and index.1-62349-030-8 1-306-58233-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.The Iron Curtain as semipermeable membrane: origins and demise of the Stalinist superiority complex / Michael David-Fox -- The taste of red watermelon: Polish peasants visit Soviet collective farms, 1949-1952 / Patryk Babiracki -- The Western wall: the Iron Curtain recast in midsummer 1951 / Nick Rutter -- Socialist encounters: Albania and the transnational Eastern Bloc in the 1950's / Elidor Mëhilli -- The Soviet-South encounter: tensions in the friendship with Afro-Asian partners, 1945-1965 / Constantin Katsakioris -- Meeting at a far meridian: American-Soviet cultural diplomacy on film in the early Cold War / Marsha Siefert.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 consolidateWalter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;Number 45.Exchange of persons programs, SovietHistorySoviet UnionRelationsCommunist countriesRelationsExchange of persons programs, SovietHistory.327.47Babiracki Patryk1978-Zimmer Kenyon1980-David-Fox Michael1965-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809666703321Cold War crossings4116952UNINA