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The Cold War from the Margins - A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Paperback)
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The Cold War from the Margins - A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Paperback)
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Loot Price R594
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In The Cold War from the Margins, Theodora K. Dragostinova
reappraises the global 1970s from the perspective of a small
socialist state—Bulgaria—and its cultural engagements with the
Balkans, the West, and the Third World. During this anxious decade,
Bulgaria's communist leadership invested heavily in cultural
diplomacy to bolster its legitimacy at home and promote its agendas
abroad. Bulgarians traveled the world to open museum exhibitions,
show films, perform music, and showcase the cultural heritage and
future aspirations of their "ancient yet modern" country. As
Dragostinova shows, these encounters transcended the Cold War's
bloc mentality: Bulgaria's relations with Greece and Austria
warmed, émigrés once considered enemies were embraced, and new
cultural ties were forged with India, Mexico, and Nigeria. Pursuing
contact with the West and solidarity with the Global South boosted
Bulgaria's authoritarian regime by securing new allies and unifying
its population. Complicating familiar narratives of both the 1970s
and late socialism, The Cold War from the Margins places the
history of socialism in an international context and recovers
alternative models of global interconnectivity along East-South
lines. Thanks to generous funding from The Ohio State University
Libraries and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph
Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open
Access volumes from Cornell Open
(cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.
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