Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

Pia Koivunen

Open Access Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Performing Peace and Friendship

The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

Pia Koivunen

Band 9 der Reihe Rethinking the Cold War

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110761160

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Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from the first festival held in Prague in 1947 and ending with the Moscow 1957 gathering, the latter becoming one of the most frequently referred moments of Khrushchev’s Thaw. By combining both institutional and grass-roots’ perspectives, the book widens our understanding of what Soviet cultural diplomacy was in practice, re-evaluates the agency of young people and provides new insights into the Soviet role in the cultural Cold War. Koivunen argues that rather than simply being orchestrated rallies by the Kremlin bureaucrats, the World Youth Festivals also became significant spaces of transnational encounters for young people, who found ways to employ the event for overcoming the various restrictions and boundaries of the Cold War world.

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Pia Koivunen, University of Turku, Finland.

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	I
Acknowledgements Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	V
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	VII
Introduction Open Access PDF downloaden	1
Part I: Selling Peace and Friendship to World Youth, 1947–56
1 Stalinist Youth Festivals, 1947–51 Open Access PDF downloaden	21
2 De-Stalinizing the Festival Open Access PDF downloaden	62
Part II: Showcasing Khrushchev’s USSR: The Moscow 1957 Festival
3 Making of the Moscow Spectacle Open Access PDF downloaden	97
4 The Long-awaited Encounter with the World Open Access PDF downloaden	136
5 Boundaries of the Permissible Open Access PDF downloaden	183
6 Immediate Impacts and the Legacy of the Festival Open Access PDF downloaden	225
Epilogue Open Access PDF downloaden	261
Abbreviations Open Access PDF downloaden	271
Sources and Bibliography Open Access PDF downloaden	273
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	295

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Copyrightjahr: 2022
Zielgruppe: Academics in the field of contemporary history, sociology, political science, Cold War and Soviet Union history.
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 8
- Inhalt: 303
Abbildungen
- Abbildungen: 20
- Tabellen: 7
Schlagworte: Kalter Krieg; Kulturpolitik; UdSSR; Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten

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Veröffentlicht: 7. November 2022
ISBN: 9783110761160

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Veröffentlicht: 7. November 2022
ISBN: 9783110758443