Alternative Globalizations (eBook)

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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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