Format:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 303 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9783110761160
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9783110761382
Series Statement:
Rethinking the Cold War Volume 9
Content:
Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev’s Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots’ perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world
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Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 273-294
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4222 Introduction -- Soviet cultural diplomacy -- The anatomy of the festival -- structure of the book -- Part I: Selling peace and friendship to world youth, 1947-56 -- 1 Stalinist youth festivals, 1947-51 -- 2 De-Stalinizing the festival -- Part II: Showcasing Khrushchev’s USSR : the Moscow 1957 festival -- 3 Making of the Moscow spectacle -- 4 The long-awaited encounter with the world -- 5 Boundaries of the permissible -- 6 Immediate impacts and the legacy of the festival -- Epilogue.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110758443
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als print ISBN 9783110758443
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sowjetunion
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Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten
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Auswärtige Kulturpolitik
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Geschichte 1947-1957
DOI:
10.1515/9783110761160
URL:
Rezension
(H-Soz-Kult)
Author information:
Koivunen, Pia
