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Cold War Crossings
. Ed(S): Babiracki, Patryk; Zimmer, Kenyon
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Description for Cold War Crossings
Includes bibliographical references and index. Editor(s): Babiracki, Patryk; Zimmer, Kenyon. Series: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 486.
Approaching 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 its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and in the Third World.
An outgrowth of the forty-sixth annual Walter Prescott Webb ... Read more
Approaching 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 its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and in the Third World.
An outgrowth of the forty-sixth annual Walter Prescott Webb ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures
Number of Pages
240
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781623490300
SKU
V9781623490300
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About . Ed(S): Babiracki, Patryk; Zimmer, Kenyon
Patryk Babiracki is an assistant professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas–Arlington, USA, and Volkswagen–Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam, Germany. Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas–Arlington, USA.
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