Russian music today has a firm hold around the world in the repertoire of opera houses,
ballet companies, and orchestras. The music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Nikolai Rimsky …

Why were Hollywood producers eager to film on the other side of the Iron Curtain? How did
Western computer games become popular in socialist Czechoslovakia's youth paramilitary …

William Faulkner is an interesting case for the history of American cultural diplomacy.
Although the State Department hailed him as a Cold War warrior, it had difficulty sponsoring …

What inspired the call was the observation that there is a potentially rich area for dialog,
collaboration and interdisciplinary research between translation studies, Cold War history …

This chapter introduces the edited volume Educational Internationalism in the Cold War. It
defines and contextualizes internationalism within twentieth-century history, illustrating how …

The article covers the 15th General Song Festival “20 Years of Soviet Estonia,” held in
Tallinn in July 1960, with about 30,000 participants. During the festival, the choirs started to …

With its military, economic and cultural blocs, Europe was the epitome of Cold War systemic
antagonism, ideological confrontation and society separation. The fact that the …

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and
using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for …

This article opens a new perspective on Finland's Cold War history by highlighting the role of
the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) in providing information about the German …

Between 1945 and the Helsinki CSCE meeting in 1975, personalities and institutions in
Finland's government discussed the role of the state in the country's international cultural …