Divided Dreamworlds?: The Cultural Cold War in East and West
Amsterdam University Press, 2012
Paper: 978-90-8964-436-7 | eISBN: 978-90-485-1670-4
Library of Congress Classification D840.D55 2012
See other books on: Cold War | Cold War in popular culture | Cultural Cold War | East | Romijn, Peter
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Paper: 978-90-8964-436-7 | eISBN: 978-90-485-1670-4
Library of Congress Classification D840.D55 2012
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
While the divide between capitalism and communism, embodied in the image of the Iron Curtain, seemed to be as wide and definitive as any cultural rift, Giles Scott-Smith, Joes Segal, and Peter Romijn have compiled a selection of essays on how culture contributed to the blurring of ideological boundaries between the East and the West. This important and diverse volume presents fascinating insights into the tensions, rivalries, and occasional cooperation between the two blocs, with essays that represent the cutting edge of Cold War Studies and analyze aesthetic preferences and cultural phenomena as various as interior design in East and West Germany; the Soviet stance on genetics; US cultural diplomacy during and after the Cold War; and the role of popular music as the universal cultural ambassador.
An illuminating and wide-ranging survey of interrelated collective dreams from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Divided Dreamworlds? has a place on the bookshelf of any modern historian.
An illuminating and wide-ranging survey of interrelated collective dreams from both sides of the Iron Curtain, Divided Dreamworlds? has a place on the bookshelf of any modern historian.
See other books on: Cold War | Cold War in popular culture | Cultural Cold War | East | Romijn, Peter
See other titles from Amsterdam University Press
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