Soviet Internationalism after Stalin: Interaction and Exchange between the USSR and Latin America during the Cold War
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107501156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Tobias Rupprecht is Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Exeter
The Soviet Union is often presented as a largely isolated and idiosyncratic state. Soviet Internationalism after Stalin challenges this view by telling the story of Soviet and Latin American intellectuals, students, political figures and artists, and their encounters with the 'other' from the 1950s through the 1980s. He shows that the Soviet Union looked quite different from a southern rather than a Western point of view and also charts the impact of the new internationalism on the Soviet Union itself in terms of popular perceptions of the USSR's place in the world and its political, scientific, intellectual and cultural reintegration into the global community.. In this first multi-archival study of Soviet relations with Latin America, Tobias Rupprecht reveals that, for people in the Second and Third Worlds, the
It ranges across a wide variety of cultural sources, from official propaganda to travelogues and films. It rests on deep and wide-ranging primary source research (Russian archives, Russian and Spanish-language publications, and a handful of interviews), as well as a thorough command of recent scholarship in English, German, Russian, and Spanish, yet it is well written and engaging.' Julie Hessler, Slavic Review . Engerman, Brandeis University, Massachusetts'Tobias Rupprecht has written a compelling account of Soviet cultural relations with Latin Ameri