Socialism goes global : the Soviet Union and eastern Europe in the age of decolonisation : a collectively researched and written monograph / co-ordinated by James Mark ; Paul Betts

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Cover -- Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- When Socialism Went Global -- Departure Points -- A Forgotten History -- Escaping Peripherality: Eastern Europe as a Region between the Colonial and the Anti-colonial -- Challenges: Were Eastern Europeans Really Anti-colonial? -- Reperipheralization and the End of Anti-colonialism? -- 1: Origins -- Eastern Europe: An Anti-colonial Colonialism? -- Soviet Union: An Anti-imperialist Empire? -- Creating the 'Communist Ecumene' -- A Post-colonial Vanguard? -- From Berlin to Addis: The Rise of Fascism and Eastern European Anti-colonialism -- The Second World War and Its Aftermath -- The Soviet Union -- Nazi Occupation in Eastern Europe -- After Occupation -- 2: Development -- From Periphery to Fragile Centre: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as Developmental Models -- Eastern European Ambivalence and Anti-colonial World-making -- An Alternative World System? -- Bilateral Interdependence -- Losing Control, and Reperipheralization: The 1980s Debt Crisis -- The End of the Eastern European Model? Learning from the 'Semi-Periphery' -- Conclusion -- 3: War and Peace -- Sharing Histories, Sharing Weapons -- From Solidarity to Profit -- Terrorism, Violence and Civilization -- Conclusions -- 4: Culture -- The Modernism Mission -- The Socialist Defence of Tradition -- Bridges and Borders -- 5: Rights -- The Cold War, Communism and Human Rights -- Hungary 1956 -- From the Congo Crisis to the Algerian War -- Race and Rights -- Conclusion -- 6: Race -- Racial Innocence and Imperial Nostalgia -- Are They White Imperialists? -- Are They Anti-racistat Home? -- Eastern Europe Close Up: The Experiences of Students and Labour Migrants -- Abandoning Anti-Racist Whiteness.

Denigration and Superiority: From Communism to Right-wing Populism -- Conclusion -- 7: Health -- Introduction -- Peripheries Internationalized -- The Socialist Alternative -- Competition in Socialist Health -- A Fading Socialist Alternative -- Epilogue -- 8: Mobility: Education and Labour -- State-Socialist Europe as a Mobile Space -- State-Socialist Visions of Mobility -- Greek, Korean and Vietnamese Children: Developing the Mobility Infrastructure -- State-Socialist Educational Mobility as Means of Development -- Learning from the State-Socialist (Semi)Periphery -- State-Socialist Cosmopolitanism and Transnationalism -- Technical Expertise and Propaganda -- Second World Seen from a Third World Vantage Point -- The Scope of the Projects and Conclusion -- 9: Home Front -- Origins of Solidarity -- New Generation, New Internationalism -- Controlling Solidarity -- Untempered, Heterodox Anti-Colonialism -- Anti-colonialism and Soviet 'Empire' -- Clamping Down -- Questioning Third Worldist Internationalism -- The Transformations of Anti-colonialInternationalism -- Epilogue -- Index.

The first work to provide a broad history of the relationship between Eastern Europe and the decolonising world ranging from the nineteenth to the late twentieth century. At its core is the post-1945 period, when socialism's importance as a globalising force accelerated and drew together what contemporaries called the 'Second' and 'Third Worlds'.