Performing Peace and Friendship
The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy
Abstract
Through a case-study of the World Youth Festival, the book provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War and offers an explanation why the USSR failed in the cultural battle against the USA and the capitalist system. With a detailed analysis of grass-roots interaction, it re-evaluates the agency of micro-level actors and argues that individuals had more chances for transnational contacts than previous scholarship has shown.
Keywords
Cold War; USSR cultural diplomacy; World Festival of Youth and Students.DOI
10.1515/9783110761160ISBN
9783110761160, 9783110758443, 9783110761382, 9783110761160Publisher
De GruyterPublisher website
https://www.degruyter.com/Publication date and place
Berlin/Boston, 2022Imprint
De Gruyter OldenbourgSeries
Rethinking the Cold War, 9Classification
European history
History and Archaeology
Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999
Social and cultural history
Oral history
Cold wars and proxy conflicts
Political ideologies and movements