Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War

Chapter 1 Editors’ Introduction

Chapter 2 Coming to Terms with Europe: Konstantin Simonov and Oles’ Honchar’s Literary Conquest of East Central Europe at the End of World War II

Chapter 3 The Stalin Cult and the Construction of the Second World in Hungary in the Early Cold War Years

Chapter 4 Two Stairways to Socialism: Soviet Youth Activists in Polish Spaces, 1957–1964

Chapter 5 Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe

Chapter 6 Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: Second World Cultural Exchange at the Grassroots

Chapter 7 Soviet Cinematic Internationalism and Socialist Film Making, 1955–1972

Chapter 8 Motocross Mayhem: Racing as Transnational Phenomenon in Socialist Czechoslovakia

Chapter 9 Friends, “Potential Friends,” and Enemies: Reimagining Soviet Relations to the First, Second, and Third Worlds at the Moscow 1957 Youth Festival

Chapter 10 Peace and Progress: Building Indo-Soviet Friendship

Chapter 11 Red China in Central Europe: Creating and Deploying Representations of an Ally in Poland and the GDR

Chapter 12 Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Guinea-Conakry, 1956–1965: The Second World in the Third World

Chapter 13 Afterword: Promises and Paradoxes of Socialist Internationalism (Personal and Historical Reflections)