Beyond the Divide

Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-866-1
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 335 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 638 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikkonen, Simo

Koivunen, Pia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Ost-West Beziehungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Šmidrkal

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

Über Autor(innen)

Mikkonen, Simo
Simo Mikkonen is a Finnish Academy Research fellow in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the author of State Composers and the Red Courtiers: Music, Ideology, and Politics in the Soviet 1930s (2009).

Koivunen, Pia
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.

Simo Mikkonen is a Finnish Academy Research fellow in the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He is the author of State Composers and the Red Courtiers: Music, Ideology, and Politics in the Soviet 1930s (2009).