Cold War crossings
Subtitle: international travel and exchange across the Soviet bloc, 1940s-1960s
By: edited by Patryk Babiracki and Kenyon Zimmer ; introduction by Vladislav Zubok ; contributors: Michael David-Fox, Patryk Babiracki, Nick Rutter, Elidor Mëhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert
Edition: First edition.
Series: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures -- number forty-five
Publisher: Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781623490300; 9781623491420
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Relations; Soviet Exchange of persons programs; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Iron Curtain as semipermeable membrane: origins and demise of the Stalinist superiority complex / Michael David-Fox; title: The taste of red watermelon: Polish peasants visit Soviet collective farms, 1949-1952 / Patryk Babiracki; title: The Western wall: the Iron Curtain recast in midsummer 1951 / Nick Rutter; title: Socialist encounters: Albania and the transnational Eastern Bloc in the 1950s / Elidor Mëhilli; title: The Soviet-South encounter: tensions in the friendship with Afro-Asian partners, 1945-1965 / Constantin Katsakioris; title: Meeting at a far meridian: American-Soviet cultural diplomacy on film in the early Cold War / Marsha Siefert.