Examining Cold War encounters between Hungary and the US during the 1960s-80s, this book explores how academic and cultural mid-level mediators brokered official and informal ties between these separate geopolitical 'worlds' and identifies how their interactions shaped the cultural and scholarly environment of both countries.
Cold War Brokers follows the transnational adventures of writers, academics and teachers as they crossed the Iron Curtain literally and figuratively, facilitating the circulation of knowledge between the global centre and periphery. From Hungarian writers who toured the US with the International Writing Program, to music teachers who transferred the acclaimed Kodály-method to the US, and experts on Uralic and Altaic languages who introduced a separate branch of area studies to the US national security paradigm, these transnational mediators ushered in processes of inter-reliant modernization in cultural policy, education and science in both countries. Arguing that their collaboration could not merely undermine ideological dichotomies, but rewrite the history of the Cold War period and the imbalances of centre-periphery relations, László shows how non-state actors were able to use the opportunities presented by the Cold War for professional development and network building to achieve agency in Cold War encounters.
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Cold War Brokers
Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989
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Hungarian-American Cultural Exchanges and Transnational Mobility, 1956-1989
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Archives
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Reclaiming the Hearts and Minds
- 1 Exchanges: The Transformative Agenda of US Cultural Diplomacy
- 2 Missions: Managing Trans-systemic Interactions in Socialist Hungary
- 3 Agency: Trans-systemic Travelers and Mediators
- 4 Scholars: The Transnational Foundations of Uralic and Altaic Studies
- 5 Music Teachers: Promoting the Kodály-method
- 6 Writers: Hungarians at the International Writing Program
- Conclusions
- Index
- Copyright Page
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