Empire of Friends : : Soviet Power and Socialist Internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia / / Rachel Applebaum.

The familiar story of Soviet power in Cold War Eastern Europe focuses on political repression and military force. But in Empire of Friends, Rachel Applebaum shows how the Soviet Union simultaneously promoted a policy of transnational friendship with its Eastern Bloc satellites to create a cohesive s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.) :; 12 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Translation and Transliteration
  • Introduction. A Tank in Prague
  • Chapter 1. Culture Wars
  • Chapter 2. “The Land of Our Destiny”
  • Chapter 3. The Legacy of the Liberation
  • Chapter 4. Socialist Internationalism with a Human Face
  • Chapter 5. Tourists on Tanks
  • Chapter 6. The Normalization of Friendship
  • Conclusion. The Tank Turns Pink
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index