Soviet Internationalism after Stalin: Interaction and Exchange between the USSR and Latin America during the Cold War
Cambridge University Press, 8/6/2015
EAN 9781107102880, ISBN10: 110710288X
Hardcover, 346 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
The Soviet Union is often presented as a largely isolated and idiosyncratic state. Soviet Internationalism after Stalin challenges this view by telling the story of Soviet and Latin American intellectuals, students, political figures and artists, and their encounters with the 'other' from the 1950s through the 1980s. In this first multi-archival study of Soviet relations with Latin America, Tobias Rupprecht reveals that, for people in the Second and Third Worlds, the Cold War meant not only confrontation with an ideological enemy but also increased interconnectedness with distant world regions. He shows that the Soviet Union looked quite different from a southern rather than a Western point of view and also charts the impact of the new internationalism on the Soviet Union itself in terms of popular perceptions of the USSR's place in the world and its political, scientific, intellectual and cultural reintegration into the global community.
Introduction
the end of Soviet isolationism after 1953
1. A modern image for the USSR
Soviet self-representation towards Latin Americans
2. Moscow learns the mambo
Latin America and internationalism in Soviet popular culture
3. Paradise lost and found
Latin American intellectuals in and on the Soviet Union
4. From Russia with a diploma
Latin American students in the Soviet Union
5. Desk revolutionaries
Soviet Latin Americanists and internationalism in the late Soviet Union
Conclusion
Soviet internationalism after Stalin and its domestic and foreign audiences.