Overview
- Offers a systemic exploration of the relationship between Western and Eastern social scientists during the Cold War
- Challenges the narrative of the non-cooperative nature of scientific work during the Cold War
- Includes case studies from an array of Eastern European countries
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history. Introducing famous as well as almost forgotten scholars who attempted to eliminate the Iron Curtain and strove to break through the obstacles against the transfer of scientific ideas, the book challenges the narrative of the non-cooperative nature of scientific work during the Cold War due to socialist scientists’ incapability and disinclination to engage openly in international discussions.
The book contributes to a deeper collective understanding of the multiple contemporary ideological and political circumstances that influenced scientific work and individual scientists' careers and explores the options scientists in socialist countries had - and utilized - to develop their research in collaboration with their Western colleagues.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Catherine Albrecht is Professor of History Emerita at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. She is an expert in the history of economic thought in East Central Europe, having published numerous articles on the intersection of economic development and nationalist competition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Behind the Iron Curtain
Book Subtitle: Economic Historians During the Cold War, 1945–1989
Editors: Antonie Doležalová, Catherine Albrecht
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31578-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31577-0Published: 05 September 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-31580-0Due: 06 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-31578-7Published: 04 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 257
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, European History, History of Science, History of Economic Thought/Methodology, History, general