Transnational Imaginations of Socialism : : Town Twinning and Local Government in “Red” Italy and the GDR / / Teresa Malice.
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only admini...
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Malice, Teresa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Transnational Imaginations of Socialism : Town Twinning and Local Government in “Red” Italy and the GDR / Teresa Malice. München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022] ©2023 1 online resource (X, 415 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Rethinking the Cold War , 2567-5311 ; 6 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conceptual Foundations and Historiographical Debates -- Chapter 2 Cold War Entanglements -- Chapter 3 Strategies of National Bilateral Exchange -- Chapter 4 “Red” Areas and Towns: Developments, Similarities, Asymmetries -- Chapter 5 Protagonists and Practices of Socialist Twinning -- Chapter 6 Looking at the “Other” -- Epilogue -- List of Archives -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Interviews -- Biographies of Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the policies implemented by "red" municipalities, in managing local economies and social policies, but also in maintaining a lively and interconnected transnational microsociability among grassroots activists. Despite the increasing ideological divergences between Eastern and Western communists, and between Italian democratic communists and the more dogmatic and repressive, strictly pro-Soviet ones in the GDR, communication continued to flourish on the local level. The book explores what still linked the two worlds together, the "bright side of socialism": in this case, a common symbolism related to the past, practical exchanges in the present dimension, and a shared future imagination and conception of the town on the basis of a socialist horizon, built around welfare and services for citizens and workers. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Cold War Influence. Communism Germany (East) History. Communism Italy History 20th century. Sister cities. Deutschland (DDR). Italien. Kalter Krieg. Städtepartnerschaft. HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other). bisacsh Cold War. GDR. Italy. town twinning. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 9783111175782 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English 9783110992960 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 9783110992939 ZDB-23-DEG EPUB 9783110667424 print 9783110667264 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110670950 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110670950 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110670950/original |
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Malice, Teresa, Malice, Teresa, Transnational Imaginations of Socialism : Town Twinning and Local Government in “Red” Italy and the GDR / Rethinking the Cold War , Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conceptual Foundations and Historiographical Debates -- Chapter 2 Cold War Entanglements -- Chapter 3 Strategies of National Bilateral Exchange -- Chapter 4 “Red” Areas and Towns: Developments, Similarities, Asymmetries -- Chapter 5 Protagonists and Practices of Socialist Twinning -- Chapter 6 Looking at the “Other” -- Epilogue -- List of Archives -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Interviews -- Biographies of Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conceptual Foundations and Historiographical Debates -- Chapter 2 Cold War Entanglements -- Chapter 3 Strategies of National Bilateral Exchange -- Chapter 4 “Red” Areas and Towns: Developments, Similarities, Asymmetries -- Chapter 5 Protagonists and Practices of Socialist Twinning -- Chapter 6 Looking at the “Other” -- Epilogue -- List of Archives -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Interviews -- Biographies of Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conceptual Foundations and Historiographical Debates -- Chapter 2 Cold War Entanglements -- Chapter 3 Strategies of National Bilateral Exchange -- Chapter 4 “Red” Areas and Towns: Developments, Similarities, Asymmetries -- Chapter 5 Protagonists and Practices of Socialist Twinning -- Chapter 6 Looking at the “Other” -- Epilogue -- List of Archives -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Interviews -- Biographies of Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index |
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