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 by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western…mehr
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 by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.
Pia Koivunen is lecturer in European and World History at the University of Turku. She is currently completing a monograph on the World Youth Festival and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy; and another book on individuals' experiences on traveling to Eastern Europe during the Cold War years.
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List of Illustrations Introduction: Beyond the Divide PART I: POLITICAL PROCESSES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS Chapter 1. Opening Up Political Space: Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki Process Giles Scott-Smith Chapter 2. Challenging Old Cold War Stereotypes: The Case of Danish-Polish Youth Exchange and the European Détente, 1965-75 Marianne Rostgaard Chapter 3. Transmitting the "Freedom Virus": France, the USSR, and Cultural Aspects of European Security Cooperation Nicolas Badalassi Chapter 4. Cultural Diplomacy of Switzerland and the Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956-75 Matthieu Gillabert PART II: INTERPLAY IN THE ACADEMIC CONTEXTS Chapter 5. Expert Groups Closing the Divide: Estonian-Finnish Computing Cooperation since the 1960s Sampsa Kaataja Chapter 6. French-Romanian Academic Exchanges in the 1960s Beatrice Scutaru Chapter 7. Hungary Opens toward the West: Political Preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian Cooperation in Research and Development in the 1960s and 1970s Anssi Halmesvirta Chapter 8. "Discrete" Intermediaries: Transnational Activities of the Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne Ioana Popa PART III: LIMITATIONS FOR TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS Chapter 9. The Image of "Real France": Instrumentalization of French Culture in the Early Communist Czechoslovakia Václav smidrkal Chapter 10. Dealing with "Friends": Soviet Friendship Societies in Western Europe as a Challenge for Western Diplomacy Sonja Grossmann Chapter 11. The Soviet Union Encounters Anglia: Britain's Russian Magazine as a Medium for Cross-Border Communication Sarah Davies PART IV: ALONG THE BORDERLINES Chapter 12. Transnational Television in Europe: Cold War Competition and Cooperation Lars Lundgren Chapter 13. Transnational Spaces between Poland and Finland: the Grassroots Dismantling of the Iron Curtain and Their Political Entanglements Anna Matyska Chapter 14. A Filter for Western Cultural Products: The Influence of Italian Popular Culture on Yugoslavia, 1955-65 Francesca Rolandi Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
List of Illustrations Introduction: Beyond the Divide PART I: POLITICAL PROCESSES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS Chapter 1. Opening Up Political Space: Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki Process Giles Scott-Smith Chapter 2. Challenging Old Cold War Stereotypes: The Case of Danish-Polish Youth Exchange and the European Détente, 1965-75 Marianne Rostgaard Chapter 3. Transmitting the "Freedom Virus": France, the USSR, and Cultural Aspects of European Security Cooperation Nicolas Badalassi Chapter 4. Cultural Diplomacy of Switzerland and the Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956-75 Matthieu Gillabert PART II: INTERPLAY IN THE ACADEMIC CONTEXTS Chapter 5. Expert Groups Closing the Divide: Estonian-Finnish Computing Cooperation since the 1960s Sampsa Kaataja Chapter 6. French-Romanian Academic Exchanges in the 1960s Beatrice Scutaru Chapter 7. Hungary Opens toward the West: Political Preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian Cooperation in Research and Development in the 1960s and 1970s Anssi Halmesvirta Chapter 8. "Discrete" Intermediaries: Transnational Activities of the Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenne Ioana Popa PART III: LIMITATIONS FOR TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS Chapter 9. The Image of "Real France": Instrumentalization of French Culture in the Early Communist Czechoslovakia Václav smidrkal Chapter 10. Dealing with "Friends": Soviet Friendship Societies in Western Europe as a Challenge for Western Diplomacy Sonja Grossmann Chapter 11. The Soviet Union Encounters Anglia: Britain's Russian Magazine as a Medium for Cross-Border Communication Sarah Davies PART IV: ALONG THE BORDERLINES Chapter 12. Transnational Television in Europe: Cold War Competition and Cooperation Lars Lundgren Chapter 13. Transnational Spaces between Poland and Finland: the Grassroots Dismantling of the Iron Curtain and Their Political Entanglements Anna Matyska Chapter 14. A Filter for Western Cultural Products: The Influence of Italian Popular Culture on Yugoslavia, 1955-65 Francesca Rolandi Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
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