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04621aam a2200445 i 4500 001 DBC80858FCE711E799AF106097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180119010249 008 150707s2015 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015003000 020 $a 1782388664 020 $a 9781782388661 035 $a (OCoLC)898529733 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e $a ee----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/ee $a e------ $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/e 050 00 $a D1065.E852 $b B49 2015 082 00 $a 940.55 $2 23 245 00 $a Beyond the divide : $b entangled histories of Cold War Europe / $c edited by Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen. 264 1 $a New York : $b Berghahn Books, $c [2015] 300 $a ix, 325 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 2 $a "Cold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Beyond the divide -- Part I. Political processes and transnational networks -- Giles Scott-Smith -- Opening up political space : informal diplomacy, East-West exchanges, and the Helsinki process -- Marianne Rostgaard -- Challenging old Cold War stereotypes : the case of Danish-Polish youth exchange and the European detente, 1965-75 -- Nicolas Badalassi -- Transmitting the "freedom virus" : France, the USSR, and cultural aspects of European security cooperation -- Matthieu Gillabert -- Cultural diplomacy of Switzerland and the challenge of peaceful coexistence, 1956-75 -- Part II. Interplay in the academic contexts -- Sampsa Kaataja -- Expert groups closing the divide : Estonian-Finnish computing cooperation since the 1960s -- Beatrice Scutaru -- French-Romanian academic exchanges in the 1960s -- Anssi Halmesvirta -- Hungary opens toward the West : political preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian cooperation in research and development in the 1960s and 1970s -- Ioana Popa -- "Discrete" intermediaries : transnational activities of the Fondation pour une Entraide Intellectuelle Europeenne -- Part III. Limitations for transnational networks -- Vaclav Smidrkal -- The image of "real France" : instrumentalization of French culture in the early communist Czechoslovakia -- Sonja Grossmann -- Dealing with "friends" : Soviet friendship societies in Western Europe as a challenge for Western diplomacy -- Sarah Davies -- The Soviet Union encounters Anglia : Britain's Russian Magazine as a medium for cross-border communication -- Part IV. Along the borderlines -- Lars Lundgren -- Transnational television in Europe : Cold War competition and cooperation -- Anna Matyska -- Transnational spaces between Poland and Finland : the grassroots dismantling of the Iron curtain and their political entanglements -- Francesca Rolandi -- A filter for Western cultural products : the influence of Italian popular culture on Yugoslavia, 1955-65. 651 0 $a Europe, Western $x Relations $z Europe, Eastern. 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $x Relations $z Europe, Western. 650 0 $a Transnationalism $x Social aspects $z Europe, Western. 650 0 $a Transnationalism $x Social aspects $z Europe, Eastern. 651 0 $a Europe $x Historiography. $y 1945- $x Historiography. 650 0 $a Cold War $x Historiography. 651 0 $a Europe, Western $x Historiography. 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $x Historiography. 650 0 $a Historiography $x Political aspects $z Europe, Western. 650 0 $a Historiography $x Political aspects $z Europe, Eastern. 700 1 $a Mikkonen, Simo. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2008019791 700 1 $a Koivunen, Pia. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2015042248 941 $a 2 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092235.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210020147.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DBC80858FCE711E799AF106097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search