Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy : : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War /

Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy : : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War / / Edited by Alison Kraft, Carola Sachse.

From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, the US and USSR – this volume offers...

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Superior document:Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18
TeilnehmendeR:
Kraft, Alison,
Sachse, Carola, 1951-
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18.
Physical Description:1 online resource (372 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Thinker’s Lodge
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Contributors
  • The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Vision, Rhetoric, Realities / Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse
  • Founding a Transnational Network of Concerned Scientists in a Bipolar World
  • Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement / Geoffrey Roberts
  • Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and His Pugwash Scientists / Carola Sachse
  • Pugwash and the Superpowers
  • Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash, 1955–1960 / Fabian Lüscher
  • American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves:” Pugwash and Anti-communism in the United States, 1957–1968 / Paul Rubinson
  • Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of Sino-Pugwash Networks / Gordon Barrett
  • Pugwash at the Central European Frontier
  • “Salonbolschewiken:” Pugwash in Austria, 1955–1965 / Silke Fengler
  • Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash and the Soviet Peace Agenda in the 1950s and 1960s / Doubravka Olšáková
  • Confronting the German Problem: Pugwash in West and East Germany, 1957–1964 / Alison Kraft
  • Blurring the Borders of a New Discipline: The Achievements and Prospects of Pugwash History / Matthew Evangelista
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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