Performing Peace and Friendship The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

• Tác giả: Pia Koivunen
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110758443
• ISBN-13: 978-3110761160
• ISBN-13: 978-3110761382
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2022
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (303 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 344605
• Chủ đề: 1. European history; 2. Oral history; 3. Political ideologies; 4. Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; 5. Social & cultural history; 6. The Cold War

Tóm tắt

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.