Performing Peace and Friendship
Performing Peace and Friendship The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy Pia Koivunen Open Access Performing Peace and Friendship tells the story of how the Soviet Union succeeded in utilizing the World Festival of Youth and Students in its cultural diplomacy from late Stalinism through the early Khrushchev period. Pia Koivunen discusses the evolution of the youth gathering into a Soviet cultural product starting from...
Solidarność nei documenti della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Il catalogo della mostra
Una catena di eventi storici nel corso dei 25 anni, dopo il 1989. di Lech Wałęsa Dopo 25 anni di difficili cambiamenti nella nostra Patria vorrei simbolicamente dichiarare: in Polonia è terminata la trasformazione del sistema politico! Oggi possiamo dire tranquillamente che viviamo in una Polonia democratica e in un sistema di economia consolidata basata sul libero mercato, in uno Stato costruito su solide fondamenta basate sulla...
Bulgaria, the Jews, and the Holocaust
Nadege Ragaru and Victoria Baena A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed—but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews...
Performing Peace and Friendship
Years ago, my grandfather showed me his photographs from a trip to Bucharest in 1953. He had participated in an international youth gathering, an event I knew nothing about at that time. Since then, a desire to learn more about this peculiar festival has taken me to many archives, libraries, museums, conferences, and bookshops, as well as private homes and cafés, where I have had the chance to talk to people who once experienced those...
The Central Asian World
Edited By Jeanne Féaux de la Croix, Madeleine Reeves This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia. Established and emerging scholars of the region critically interrogate the idea of a ‘Central Asian World’ at the intersection of post-Soviet, Persianate, East and South Asian worlds. Encompassing chapters on life between Afghanistan and Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Xinjiang, this...