China as a role model? The ‘Economic Leap’ campaign in Bulgaria (1958–1960)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12695322 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Zofka (0000-0002-7420-4001, Collaborative Research Centre ‘Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition’, Leipzig University , Leipzig, Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 325-342 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-25 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cold War History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-2745 • E-ISSN: 1743-7962 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14682745.2017.1336158 |
| OpenAlex | W2738083291 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The article examines the transnational dimensions of the industrialisation drive in Bulgaria in the late 1950s and poses the question of how extensively this campaign was influenced by the contemporary ‘Great Leap Forward’ in China. Although there is no evidence of comprehensive adoption of a Chinese model, there was widespread enthusiasm for China, and technologies were transferred in connection with the Chinese acceleration policies. These transfers did not have a geopolitical implication, as Western Cold War historians had supposed, but rather happened in a context of widespread technological exchange and hint at multi-centrality in the socialist camp before the Sino-Soviet split
Centrality · China · Cold war · Context (archaeology · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Enthusiasm · Geopolitics · Industrialisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |