LEADER 03492nam 2200649 450 001 9910809666703321 005 20230803221138.0 010 $a1-62349-142-8 035 $a(CKB)2550000001263271 035 $a(EBL)1666600 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001181244 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11778589 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001181244 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11144885 035 $a(PQKB)10528510 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1666600 035 $a(OCoLC)879352278 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33566 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1666600 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10857849 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL589484 035 $a(OCoLC)876512880 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001263271 100 $a20140427h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCold War crossings $einternational travel and exchange across the Soviet bloc, 1940s-1960s /$fedited by Patryk Babiracki and Kenyon Zimmer ; introduction by Vladislav Zubok ; contributors: Michael David-Fox, Patryk Babiracki, Nick Rutter, Elidor M{eumlhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCollege Station, [Texas] :$cUniversity of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 225 1 $aWalter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture ;$vnumber forty-five 300 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 311 $a1-62349-030-8 311 $a1-306-58233-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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 Me?hilli -- 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. 330 $aApproaching the early decades of the "Iron Curtain" with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists' international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach-personal, technological, and cultural-on the population and politics of the Soviet bloc. Several authors analyze lesser-known complications of East-West exchange; others show the contradictory nature of Moscow's efforts to consolidate 410 0$aWalter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ;$vNumber 45. 606 $aExchange of persons programs, Soviet$xHistory 607 $aSoviet Union$xRelations 607 $aCommunist countries$xRelations 615 0$aExchange of persons programs, Soviet$xHistory. 676 $a327.47 702 $aBabiracki$b Patryk$f1978- 702 $aZimmer$b Kenyon$f1980- 702 $aDavid-Fox$b Michael$f1965- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809666703321 996 $aCold War crossings$94116952 997 $aUNINA