Socialism Goes Global

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation

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ID20003339
EditoresJames Mark (Professor of Modern European History, University of Exeter), Paul Betts (0009-0007-0298-7944, Professor of Modern European History, University of Oxford)
Ano2022
Data de publicação2022-01-06
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSocialism Goes Global (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780192848857.001.0001
OpenAlexW4212779373
Open LibraryOL34789977M
ISBN9780192848857
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas35

This collectively written work is the first major monograph to situate Eastern Europe within the global history of decolonization. As the site of the first imperial collapses of the twentieth century, the establishment of the anti-colonial Soviet Union, and a subsequent recolonization under Nazi Empire, the region had long been connected to global processes of imperial defence and dissolution. The heart of the book concerns the Cold War period, when contacts between a Communist Eastern Europe and Latin America, Africa and Asia dramatically intensified in the name of making a new world after Empire. A common embrace of socialist modernization and anti-imperial culture beyond the West helped further to develop solidarities across continents. At the same time, the spirit of proletarian internationalism did not efface differences of race and culture, and anti-imperialist ideology would eventually be turned back in revolt against the Soviet Union. To explore the rise and fall of this global project, we scrutinize encounters across many different fields—from health to archaeology, and from economic development to the arts—and through many protagonists—from students to soldiers and from doctors to labour migrants. As forces in the region once again challenge western liberal world-making, so a global history of Eastern Europe’s evolving relationship between a colonial West and anti-colonial world becomes ever more relevant

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