Entangled East and West : cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction during the Cold War / edited by Simo Mikkonen, Giles Scott-Smith, Jari Parkkinen.
Exploring culture in and of the Cold War / Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith -- The Soviet avant-garde in Cold War Britain: the Art in Revolution exhibition (1971) / Verity Clarkson -- "The collective approach does not abolish the individual": links between Soviet avant-garde experiments and architectural practice in the Netherlands during the early twentieth century / Ksenia Malich -- The Berlin Wall: photographic diplomacy in a globalised world / Annette Vowinckel -- "No more memorials of war." Helsinki's Statue of Peace and the struggle for Finnish memory / Timo Vilen -- Lev Kopelev and his role in German-Soviet cultural relations / Astrid Shchekina-Greipel -- Universities during the cultural Cold War: mapping the research agenda / Natalia Tsvetkova -- Soviet Americanists and American visual media in the USSR during the Brezhnev era / Sergei I. Zhuk -- Soviet music recordings and Cold War cultural relations / Evgeniya Kondrashina -- New directions in Soviet music publishing: Preslit, Am-Rus Music Agency and Anglo-Soviet Music Press between 1944-48 / Viktoria Zora -- Yves Montand in the USSR: mixed messages of post-Stalinist/Western cultural encounters / Bruce Johnson, Mila Oiva, Hannu Salmi -- Looking for Lagonia: on "imaginary bridges" and Cold War boundaries / Giles Scott-Smith.
Summary:
"Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years. This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing an essentially European point of view on the cultural Cold War, providing fresh insight into little known connections and cooperation in different artistic fields. Chapters of the volume address photography and architecture, popular as well as classical music, theatre and film, and fine arts. By examining different actors ranging from individuals to organizations such as universities, the volume brings new perspective on the mechanisms and workings of the cultural Cold War. Finally, the volume estimates the pertinence of the Cold War and its influence in post-1991 world. The volume offers an overview on the role culture played in international politics, as well as its role in the Cold War more generally, through interesting examples and case studies."--Publisher's website.
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