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

• Auteur principal: Koivunen, Pia (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2022
• Collection: Rethinking the Cold War 9
• Sujets: European history; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; Oral history; The Cold War; Political ideologies; Cold War; USSR cultural diplomacy; World Festival of Youth and Students.
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

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.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (303 p.)

ISBN

9783110761160
9783110758443
9783110761382

Accès

Open Access