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Through a case-study of the World Youth Festival, the book provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War and offers an explanation why the USSR failed in the cultural battle against the USA and the capitalist system. With a detailed analysis of grass-roots interaction, it re-ev...

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Έκδοση: De Gruyter 2023
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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-611052024-03-27T14:14:23Z Performing Peace and Friendship Koivunen, Pia Cold War USSR cultural diplomacy World Festival of Youth and Students. thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTD Oral history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTW Cold wars and proxy conflicts thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements Through a case-study of the World Youth Festival, the book provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War and offers an explanation why the USSR failed in the cultural battle against the USA and the capitalist system. With a detailed analysis of grass-roots interaction, it re-evaluates the agency of micro-level actors and argues that individuals had more chances for transnational contacts than previous scholarship has shown. 2023-01-30T17:08:14Z 2023-01-30T17:08:14Z 2022 book ONIX_20230130_9783110761160_63 2567-5311 9783110761160 9783110758443 9783110761382 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61105 eng Rethinking the Cold War application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783110761160.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110761160 De Gruyter De Gruyter Oldenbourg 10.1515/9783110761160 10.1515/9783110761160 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 9783110761160 9783110758443 9783110761382 De Gruyter Oldenbourg 9 303 Berlin/Boston open access
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