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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces. These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them. Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War explores the ways in which these Second and Third World actors collaborated and clashed in these everyday spaces, and brings these multi-faceted, multi-actor histories to a vital centre ground. Vorwort A study into the spaces of ‘Second-Third World’ interactions during the Cold War to understand the complex social, cultural and political encounters between Second World countries and the Global South. Zusammenfassung This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of ‘Second-Third World’ interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces. These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them. Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War explores the ways in which these Second and Third World actors collaborated and clashed in these everyday spaces, and brings these multi-faceted, multi-actor histories to a vital centre ground. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Kristin Roth-Ey (University College London, UK)1. The School: Integrating North Korean children within socialist Eastern Europe, 1951-1959, Péter Apor (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)2. The Airwaves: How Do You Listen to Radio Moscow? Moscow’s Broadcasters, ‘Third World’ Listeners, and the Space of the Airwaves in the Cold War, Kristin Roth-Ey (University College London, UK...