LEADER 02302nam 2200409 450 001 9910645948503321 005 20230511070627.0 035 $a(CKB)5860000000285445 035 $a(NjHacI)995860000000285445 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000285445 100 $a20230511d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming Peace and Friendship $eThe World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy /$fPia Koivunen 210 1$aMu?nchen :$cDe Gruyter Oldenbourg,$d2022. 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 303 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aRethinking the Cold War 311 $a3-11-076138-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aPerforming Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev's Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots' perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world. 410 0$aRethinking the Cold War (Berlin, Germany) 606 $aCold War 606 $aYouth and war 615 0$aCold War. 615 0$aYouth and war. 676 $a909.825 700 $aKoivunen$b Pia$01273008 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645948503321 996 $aPerforming Peace and Friendship$92999018 997 $aUNINA