Cold War Crossings

This important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors to this volume study various effects of international outreach—personal, technological, and cultural—on the population and politics of the Soviet bloc. PATRYK BABIRACKI is an assistant professor in Russian and East European history at the University of Texas–Arlington and Volkswagen–Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam. KENYON ZIMMER is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas–Arlington.