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While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection of essays on how culture contributed to the blurring of ideological bounda...

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Superior document:Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
TeilnehmendeR:
Romijn, Peter,
Scott-Smith, Giles, 1968-
Segal, Joes,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 238 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Divided Dreamworlds? The Cultural Cold War in East and West / Giles Scott-Smith & Joes Segal
  • Part I: Arts and Sciences Between the Blocs
  • 1. An Unofficial Cultural Ambassador: Arthur Miller and the Cultural Cold War / Nathan Abrams
  • 2. Biological Utopias East and West: Trofim D. Lysenko and His Critics / William DeJong-Lambert
  • 3. Tadeusz Kantor's Publics: Warsaw
  • New York / Jill Bugajski
  • 4. Co-Producing Cold War Culture: East-West Film-Making and Cultural Diplomacy / Marsha Siefert
  • Part II: Modernity East and West
  • 5. The Dreamworld of New Yugoslav Culture and the Logic of Cold War Binaries / Sabina Mihelj
  • 6. Sounds like America: Yugoslavia's Soft Power in Eastern Europe / Dean Vuletic
  • 7. Moving Toward Utopia: Soviet Housing in the Atomic Age / Christine Varga-Harris
  • 8. Cold War Modernism and Post-War German Homes: An East-West Comparison / Natalie Scholz & Milena Veenis
  • 9. Flying Away: Civil Aviation and the Dream of Freedom in East and West / Annette Vowinckel
  • Part III: Post-1989 Perspectives on the Cultural Cold War
  • 10. East German Materials after / Justinian Jampol
  • 11. Musical 'East-West' Diplomacy in the Cold War and the War on Terror / Harm Langenkamp
  • About the Authors
  • Index.

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