Cold War crossings [electronic resource] : international travel and exchange across the Soviet bloc, 1940s-1960s / edited by Patryk Babiracki and Kenyon Zimmer ; introduction by Vladislav Zubok ; contributors: Michael David-Fox, Patryk Babiracki, Nick Rutter, Elidor Mëhilli, Constantin Katsakioris, Marsha Siefert.

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TextSeries: Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures ; no. 45. | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: College Station : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press, 2014. 2015)Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:

9781623491420
1623491428

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Electronic books.

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327.47 23

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DK266.45 .C65 2014

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The Iron Curtain as semipermeable membrane: origins and demise of the Stalinist superiority complex / Michael David-Fox -- The taste of red watermelon: Polish peasants visit Soviet collective farms, 1949-1952 / Patryk Babiracki -- The Western wall: the Iron Curtain recast in midsummer 1951 / Nick Rutter -- Socialist encounters: Albania and the transnational Eastern Bloc in the 1950s / Elidor Mëhilli -- The Soviet-South encounter: tensions in the friendship with Afro-Asian partners, 1945-1965 / Constantin Katsakioris -- Meeting at a far meridian: American-Soviet cultural diplomacy on film in the early Cold War / Marsha Siefert.

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