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This impressive new project sheds the tired binaries as it seeks to complicate the story of cold war encounters between the Second and Third worlds. I particularly appreciate the emphasis on cultural and social history through the exploration of the spaces that often remained unseen and unexamined, but which were in fact the sites of real human-to-human encounters. The contributors’ attention to the mundane and the granular represents a welcome departure from the standard grand narratives of the Cold War. * Maxim Matusevich, Department of History, Seton Hall University, USA * This brilliantly edited volume invites readers right into the military units, work sites, dorm rooms, and other tense spaces where socialist internationalism unfolded, revealing a welter of unexpected consequences: Korean orphans studying Czech folk songs, Polish faculty teaching British economic theory to Ghanaian university students, Romanian women seeking abortions in Libya, and more. * Margaret Litvin, Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University, USA *

"""This impressive new project sheds the tired binaries as it seeks to complicate the story of cold war encounters between the Second and Third worlds. I particularly appreciate the emphasis on cultural and social history through the exploration of the spaces that often remained unseen and unexamined, but which were in fact the sites of real human-to-human encounters. The contributors' attention to the mundane and the granular represents a welcome departure from the standard grand narratives of the Cold War. "" --Maxim Matusevich, Department of History, Seton Hall University, USA ""This brilliantly edited volume invites readers right into the military units, work sites, dorm rooms, and other tense spaces where socialist internationalism unfolded, revealing a welter of unexpected consequences: Korean orphans studying Czech folk songs, Polish faculty teaching British economic theory to Ghanaian university students, Romanian women seeking abortions in Libya, and more."" --Margaret Litvin, Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University, USA"

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Kristin Roth-Ey is Associate Professor of Modern Russian History at the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, UK. She is the author of Moscow Prime Time: How the Soviet Union Built the Media Empire that Lost of the Cultural Cold War (2011). Her current research focuses on Soviet media and cultural diplomacy in the Third World during the Cold War.

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