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Title:

Cold 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©±hilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Soviet Union--Relations.
Communist countries--Relations.
Exchange of persons programs, Soviet--History.

Other Authors:

Babiracki, Patryk, 1978- editor of compilation.
Zimmer, Kenyon, 1980- editor of compilation.
David-Fox, Michael, 1965- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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 1950s / Elidor M©±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.

Series:

Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; number forty-five

ISBN:

1623490308 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781623490300 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862399931

LCCN:

2013040307

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)