Acknowledgments
Introduction / James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, and Steffi Marung
Part I: Red Globalisation?
1. The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Alternative Visions of a Global Economy 1950s-1980s / James Mark and Yakov Feygin
2. The Cold War in the Margins of Capital. The Soviet Union's Introduction to the Decolonized World, 1955-61 / Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
3. The Soviet Bloc and China's Global Opening-up Policy during the Last Years of Mao Zedong / Péter Vámos
4. From Socialist Assistance to National Self-Interest: Vietnamese Labor Migration into CMEA Countries / Alena K. Alamgir and Christina Schwenkel
Part II: A Socialist Age of Development?
5. "Socialist Development" and East Germany in the Arab Middle East / Massimiliano Trentin
6. Entangling Agrarian Modernities: The "Agrarian Question" through the Eyes of Soviet Africanists / Steffi Marung
7. Socialist Worldmaking. Architecture and Global Urbanization in the Cold War / Łukasz Stanek
Part III: Cultural Encounters: Discovering Similarities, Defining Difference, Creating Identities
8. Writing the Soviet South into the History of the Cold War and Decolonization / Artemy M. Kalinovsky
9. Internationalizing the Thaw: Soviet Orientalists and the Contested Politics of Spiritual Solidarity in Asia 1954-1959 / Hanna Jansen
10. Soviet Anti-racism and Its Discontents: The Cold War Years / Maxim Matusevich
11. Southeast by Global South: The Balkans, UNESCO, and the Cold War / Bogdan C. Iacob
Part IV: Global Encounter and Challenges to State Socialism
12. A Prehistory of Postcolonialism in Socialist Poland / Adam F. Kola
13. Competing Solidarities? Solidarność and the Global South during the 1980s / Kim Christiaens and Idesbald Goddeeris
14. China is Not Far! Alternative Internationalism and the Tiananmen Square Massacre in East Germany's 1989 / Quinn Slobodian
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James Mark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He is author of The Unfinished Revolution: Making Sense of the Communist Past in Central-Eastern Europe and author (with Robert Gildea and Anette Warring) of Europe's 1968: Voices of Revolt.
Artemy Kalinovsky is Senior Lecturer in East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is author of Laboratory of Socialist Development: Cold War Politics and Decolonization in Soviet Tajikistan and A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Steffi Marung is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig. She is author of Die wandernde Grenze: Die EU, Polen und der Wandel politischer Räume, 1990–2010.
Alternative Globalizations is fully rewarding. That the
contributions challenge frequently used categories, complicate
binary narratives inherited from the Cold War, and show
interconnections, where most of us would not assume them to have
played a crucial role, is another highly appreciated trait.
*Eurasian Geography and Economics*
Gathering contributions which analyse the many shapes of socialist
internationalism during the post-war period, the book proposes a
renovated and multifaceted frame of globalization. . . . The
ambitious objectives of the collection are fulfilled in so far as
the global scenario of the entangled processes of Cold War and
decolonization is described as a multilocal and multivocal context
whose effects reverberate in the contemporary globalization.
*Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists*
This edited volume is a significant contribution to knowledge that
broadens our understanding of the global Cold War setting. It
challenges both the dominant research paradigms and current
hegemonic narratives about this period. The book can be taken as a
starting point and its chapters as an inspiration and introduction
to discovering and exploring the work of its authors more widely.
Due to its broad implications, it does not only appeal to
historians of the post-1945 world. Rather, it is equally
interesting to scholars studying contemporary societies that once
took part in socialist globalizing projects and postcolonial and
postsocialist contexts across Central and Eastern Europe, Africa,
and Asia.
*Studies of Transition States and Societies*
New anthology publication Alternative Globalizations. Eastern
Europe and the Postcolonial World represents, in the best light,
the strength of the current trend in world historiography, which is
increasingly focused on global history. Such a view of history
reveals completely new contexts and motivations of various
participants in events. Not only the main players of the Cold War
are taken into account, but also the interests and motivations of
participants not only from Europe but also from other continents of
the world.
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