Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War

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Histories of Internationalism
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Contents
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Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Space—and Socialist Spaces?
	Space and Access: The Universal Meets the Particular
	Second World Social Frameworks and Solidarity Spaces
	Gender and Power in Solidarity Spaces
	Selves and Others: The Bilateral Vision and its Hierarchies
	Selves and Others: Race in Solidarity Spaces
	Whose Global Socialism? Towards a Conclusion
1 The School: Schools as Liminal Spaces—Integrating North Korean Children Within Socialist Eastern Europe, 1951–9
	Space, Difference, and Civilizational Hierachies
	Socialist Integration, Internationalism, and National Identities
	Conclusion
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
	National Voices and Soviet Internationalism
	Speaking to and Speaking For
	Radio Moscow Knows its Audience: The Worldwide Surveys
	Towards an (not the) Audience
3 The Great Industrial Project: Concepts of Space—Aswan’s Distinctive Production Culture
	Aswan Between Moscow and Washington, DC
	Aswan, an Extension of Soviet Space?
	Aswan as an Anti-Colonial Project?
	Egyptian Elites and Production Culture
	Soviet Production Culture
	Territorialized Space of Egypt’s New Borders
	Crisis in Production
	Conclusion
4 The Exhibition: Exhibitions as Spaces of Cultural Encounter—Yugoslavia and Africa
	Yugoslav Socialist Modernism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War
	Spaces of Encounter: Exhibiting “Otherness”
	Yugoslavia and Africa: A Glimpse of the Cultural Encounters
	Yugoslav Art in African Spaces
	African Art in Yugoslav Space
	The Institutionalization of African Art in Yugoslavia
5 The Epistolarium: Socialist Internationalism Writ Small—Friendship, Solidarity, and Support Between Women in the Soviet Union and in Decolonizing Countries, 1950s–1960s
	Notes on Letters as a Medium
	Annotating Letters “Marked by and Sent to the World”
6 The University: The Decolonization of Knowledge? The Making of the African University, the Power of the Imperial Legacy, and the Eastern European Influence
	Mini-Oxbridge: The Making of the Late Colonial Campus
	The “Special Relationship” with London
	Poles as Agents of Africanization
	Decolonization Through Internationalization
	The Failed Offensive of Nkrumahism, 1964–1966
	Conclusion
7 The Expert Community: Expert Knowledge and Socialist Virtues—Czechoslovak Military Specialists in the Global South
	Expert Knowledge as an Instrument of Business and Solidarity
	Cooperation and Rivalry: Experts and the Co-construction of the School
	Racial and Cultural Stereotypes in the Contact Zone
	The Expert Community: Social Status and the Expat Experience
	The Prague Spring in Cairo
	Conclusion
8 The Military Training Camp: Co-Constructed Spaces—Experiences of PAIGC Guerrillas in Soviet Training Camps, 1961–1974
	“A Golden Prison”: Secrecy, Hierarchy, and Control in the Training Camps
	“The Greatest Contribution”: Soviet Military Technology and African Liberation
	“Who Shoots Whom”: Politics and Culture in the Training Camps
	Conclusion
9 The Hospital: Uncomfortable Proximities—Romania’s “One Nation Hospital” in Gharyan, 1974–1985
	The One Nation Hospital
	Contradictions of Bilateral Space
	Socialist Microcosm
	Malfunctioning Care
	Conclusion
10 The Trade Union: Kindred by Choice—Trade Unions as Interface Between East Africa and East Germany
	Productionist Turns in Context: African Decolonization and Eastern European State Socialism
	Anti-imperialist Bridges and Competing Vistas of Socialist Development
	Transregional Mobility and Trade Union Education
	The Itinerant Trade Union School
	Anti-imperialism Redux: Invisible Advice
11 The Everyday Space: The Hostel, the Pub, and the Prison—Vietnamese and Cuban Workers in 1980s Czechoslovakia
	A Methodological Prologue
	The Hostel
	The Pub
	The Prison
	Conclusion
12 The Travelogue: Imagining Spaces of Encounter—Travel Writing Between the Colonial and the Anti-Colonial in Socialist Eastern Europe, 1949–1989
	Bringing a Distant World Close: The Anti-colonial Travelogue
	Coloniality in an Anti-Colonial Era
	The Colonial in the Anti-colonial: Escaping a Frustrated Globality
	The End of Anti-colonial Solidarity?Distancing and Bordering
	Conclusion
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