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When Stars and Stripes Met Hammer and Sickle - The Chautauqua Conferences on U.S-Soviet Relations, 1985-1989 (Paperback)
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When Stars and Stripes Met Hammer and Sickle - The Chautauqua Conferences on U.S-Soviet Relations, 1985-1989 (Paperback)
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When Stars and Stripes Met Hammer and Sickle tells the story of
face-to-face citizen diplomacy that brought together Americans and
Soviets during the closing years of the cold war. Looking
specifically at five conferences held between 1985 and 1989, Ross
Mackenzie recounts the experiences of artists, diplomats,
government officials, and interested citizens who joined together
for a unique mix of political debates, artistic performances, open
discussions, and socialization. Sponsored by the Chautauqua
Institution, a center for arts, education, religion, and recreation
in western New York, these conferences offer a snapshot of the
relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union just
before the collapse of the Soviet government and federation in
November 1989. The meetings also point to the promising future of
people-to-people diplomacy. The book both reproduces verbatim some
speeches and discussions, and offers Mackenzie's accounts of
episodes that took place inside and outside of the conferences.
Mackenzie suggests that these conferences, coming at the time of
Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, may have been both a
measure of the reforms' success and a driving force in continuing
their momentum. Highlighting the imaginative, wide-ranging approach
employed by Chautauqua, Mackenzie recounts the scope of topics
discussed at the conferences, from nuclear weapons, women's issues,
and global health care to American intervention in Latin America
and Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. He also identifies the
cross section of people drawn to participate, ranging from average
American and Soviet citizens to individuals of international
renown, including U.S. policymakers Paul Wolfowitz and Paul Nitze,
violinist Eugene Fodor, poets Andrei Voznesensky and Yevgeny
Yevtushenko, female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, musicians
Grover Washington Jr. and Tommy Cecil, and politicians Mario Cuomo
and Geraldine Ferraro.
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