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The Cold War from the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene

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posted on 2021-06-02, 20:40 authored by Theodora Dragostinova

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.

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The Ohio State University Libraries as part of the TOME initiative

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Publication date

2021

ISBN (Print - Paper)

9781501755552

ISBN (PDF)

9781501755576

ISBN (EPUB)

9781501755569

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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

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Cornell University Press

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