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Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War

Exploring the Second World

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Includes a strong range of expert scholars on Cold War studies and Soviet politics

  • Provides a broader analysis, writing Eastern Europe into global and transnational history

  • Closely examines post-Soviet policy in relationship to a a new Cold War

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Editors’ Introduction

    • Patryk Babiracki, Austin Jersild
    Pages 1-16
  3. Post-Stalinist Entanglements in the Second World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77
  4. Second World Cultures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 345-355

About this book

This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn often influenced Soviet policies and society. The result was the distinct and interconnected world of socialism, or the Socialist Second World. Drawing on previously unavailable archival sources and cutting-edge insights from “New Cold War” and transnational histories, the twelve contributors to this volume focus on diverse cultural and social forms of this global socialist exchange: the cults of communist leaders, literature, cinema, television, music, architecture, youth festivals, and cultural diplomacy. The book’s contributors seek to understand the forces that enabled and impeded the cultural consolidation of the Socialist Second World.  The efforts of those who created this world, and the limitations on what they could do, remain key to understanding both the outcomes of the Cold War and a recent legacy that continues to shape lives, cultures and policies in post-communist states today.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington, USA

    Patryk Babiracki

  • Old Dominion University , NORFOLK, USA

    Austin Jersild

About the editors

Patryk Babiracki is an Associate Professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. His first monograph is Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943-1957 (2015). He co-edited a collection of essays entitled Cold War Crossings: Travel and Exchange Across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s (2014) and wrote several articles on transnational dimensions of Soviet and East European communisms during the Cold War.

Austin Jersild is Professor of History at Old Dominion University, USA, and the author of The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History (2014). In 2016 he was a Research Fellow at the Berlin Center for Cold War Studies. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War

  • Book Subtitle: Exploring the Second World

  • Editors: Patryk Babiracki, Austin Jersild

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32570-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32569-9Published: 20 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81317-2Published: 07 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32570-5Published: 10 December 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 355

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics

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eBook USD 119.00
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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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