Transnational socialist encounters in the Second Socialist World

The case of the Chilean Museum of Solidarity

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ID5674744
AuthorsC Preda (0000-0002-4685-0823, University of Bucharest)
Year2024
Volume49
Issue3
Pages428-448
Publication date2024-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0826-3663 • E-ISSN: 2333-1461
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08263663.2024.2374624
OpenAlexW4400686285
LanguageEN
References cited29

The objective of this article is to analyze from an interdisciplinary perspective, that uses transnational and cross-regional cultural studies of the Second Socialist World, the unique example of the Chilean Museum of Solidarity in the context of its relations with the socialist countries in Eastern Europe during the 1970s. The originality of this case study is that it has not been previously analyzed and it helps explain the threads uniting countries of the Second Socialist World and the role of cultural relations as they were established during the Cold War between socialist countries in the south and the east. As a methodology, this article uses a qualitative "small number" approach to analyze cultural relationships between socialist countries. The conclusions show that, for some countries, such as Romania, cultural relations were important in establishing an autonomous policy from Moscow, such as that of Nicolae Ceausescu, but the type of artistic exchanges promoted witnessed an aesthetic paradox, supporting a depoliticized version of art. Moreover, the path-dependency argument for cultural relationships between socialist countries is partially verified

Economic history · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · History, Culture, and Society · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · History · Law

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