Alternative Globalizations

James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe and author (with Robert Gildea and Anette Warring) of Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt. Artemy Kalinovsky is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan and A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. Steffi Marung is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. She is author of Die wandernde Grenze: Die EU, Polen und der Wandel politischer Räume, 1990–2010.

Acknowledgments


Introduction / James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, and Steffi Marung


Part I: Red Globalisation?


1. The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Alternative Visions of a Global Economy 1950s-1980s / James Mark and Yakov Feygin


2. The Cold War in the Margins of Capital. The Soviet Union's Introduction to the Decolonized World, 1955-61 / Oscar Sanchez-Sibony


3. The Soviet Bloc and China's Global Opening-up Policy during the Last Years of Mao Zedong / Péter Vámos


4. From Socialist Assistance to National Self-Interest: Vietnamese Labor Migration into CMEA Countries / Alena K. Alamgir and Christina Schwenkel





Part II: A Socialist Age of Development?


5. "Socialist Development" and East Germany in the Arab Middle East / Massimiliano Trentin


6. Entangling Agrarian Modernities: The "Agrarian Question" through the Eyes of Soviet Africanists / Steffi Marung


7. Socialist Worldmaking. Architecture and Global Urbanization in the Cold War / Łukasz Stanek





Part III: Cultural Encounters: Discovering Similarities, Defining Difference, Creating Identities


8. Writing the Soviet South into the History of the Cold War and Decolonization / Artemy M. Kalinovsky


9. Internationalizing the Thaw: Soviet Orientalists and the Contested Politics of Spiritual Solidarity in Asia 1954-1959 / Hanna Jansen


10. Soviet Anti-racism and Its Discontents: The Cold War Years / Maxim Matusevich


11. Southeast by Global South: The Balkans, UNESCO, and the Cold War / Bogdan C. Iacob





Part IV: Global Encounter and Challenges to State Socialism


12. A Prehistory of Postcolonialism in Socialist Poland / Adam F. Kola


13. Competing Solidarities? Solidarność and the Global South during the 1980s / Kim Christiaens and Idesbald Goddeeris


14. China is Not Far! Alternative Internationalism and the Tiananmen Square Massacre in East Germany's 1989 / Quinn Slobodian


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