Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal
investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic …

This volume aims at enlarging our understanding of planning, engineering and more
generally regulation ideas by looking at possible forms of mutual interest, circulation of idea …

This dissertation examines the participation of the USSR in the United Nations Educational,
Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) during the Cold War as a case study of the …

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 …

ABSTRACT The Leipzig Trade Fair was the first multilateral international exhibition the
People's Republic of China (PRC) attended since 1949. The fair was a venue for the …

State socialist experts were at the center of Eastern Europe's internationalization from the
mid-1950s until 1989. They acted as intermediaries between their states and other national …

The downfall of the communist system and the end of the Cold War, the liberalization of
historical discourses in Central and Eastern Europe, the opening up of new archival …

Abstract Focusing on the Cold War Expo in Brussels in 1958, this article takes the metaphor
of “design diplomacy” as a lens through which to explore the dilemmas of Soviet exhibition …

Other Diplomacies, Other Ties explores Cuba-Canada relations following the revolution of
1959 and the major geopolitical and economic transformations that have occurred in recent …

Between 1951 and 1965, the People's Republic of China regularly exhibited at the
international trade fairs in the East German city of Leipzig. One of the major attractions of the …