Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular

Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War

Kristin Roth-Ey

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350302785
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350302808
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces.

These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them.

Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War explores the ways in which these Second and Third World actors collaborated and clashed in these everyday spaces, and brings these multi-faceted, multi-actor histories to a vital centre ground.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The School: Schools as Liminal Spaces—Integrating North Korean Children Within Socialist Eastern Europe, 1951–9
• 2 The Airwaves: How Do You Listen to Radio Moscow? Moscow’s Broadcasters, “Third World” Listeners, and the Space of the Airwaves in the Cold War
• 3 The Great Industrial Project: Concepts of Space—Aswan’s Distinctive Production Culture
• 4 The Exhibition: Exhibitions as Spaces of Cultural Encounter—Yugoslavia and Africa
• 5 The Epistolarium: Socialist Internationalism Writ Small—Friendship, Solidarity, and Support Between Women in the Soviet Union and in Decolonizing Countries, 1950s–1960s
• 6 The University: The Decolonization of Knowledge? The Making of the African University, the Power of the Imperial Legacy, and the Eastern European Influence
• 7 The Expert Community: Expert Knowledge and Socialist Virtues—Czechoslovak Military Specialists in the Global South
• 8 The Military Training Camp: Co-Constructed Spaces—Experiences of PAIGC Guerrillas in Soviet Training Camps, 1961–1974
• 9 The Hospital: Uncomfortable Proximities—Romania’s “One Nation Hospital” in Gharyan, 1974–1985
• 10 The Trade Union: Kindred by Choice—Trade Unions as Interface Between East Africa and East Germany
• 11 The Everyday Space: The Hostel, the Pub, and the Prison—Vietnamese and Cuban Workers in 1980s Czechoslovakia
• 12 The Travelogue: Imagining Spaces of Encounter—Travel Writing Between the Colonial and the Anti-Colonial in Socialist Eastern Europe, 1949–1989
• Select Bibliography
• Index
• Copyright