Most narratives depict Soviet Cold War cultural activities and youth groups as drab and
dreary, militant and politicized. In this study Gleb Tsipursky challenges these stereotypes in …

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 …

Cultural diplomacy designates a policy field, in which states seek to mobilize their cultural
resources to achieve foreign policy goals. The nature of those goals, and of the cultural …

This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a
new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period …

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution
in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into …

Music, Art and Diplomacy shows how a vibrant field of cultural exchange between East and
West was taking place during the Cold War, which contrasts with the orthodox …

If the Cold War was a war of ideas and ideologies for the 'soul of mankind'1, radio was
definitely one of the weapons of choice. Radio played an important role in the ideological …

Entangled East and West: cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction during the Cold War Simo
Mikkonen, Giles Scott-Smith, Jari Parkkinen (Eds.) Entangled East and West Page 2 …

Fragrant tropical flowers, opulent batik fabrics, magnificent bronze gamelan orchestras, and,
of course, aromatic coffee. Such are the exotic images of Java, Indonesia's most densely …

The right of Sune Bechmann Pedersen and Christian Noack to be identified as the authors
of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in …