The Counter Iron Curtain: Crafting an American-Soviet Bloc Civil Aviation Policy: 1942-1960

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-279
Author(s):  
J. Gormly
Keyword(s):  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Aviation Policy

Goods and States: The Political Logic of State-Socialist Material Culture

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 426-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krisztina Fehérváry
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Widespread Phenomenon ◽  
The City ◽  
State Socialist

In the two decades since the fall of state socialism, the widespread phenomenon ofnostalgiein the former Soviet satellites has made clear that the everyday life of state socialism, contrary to stereotype, was experienced and is remembered in color. Nonetheless, popular accounts continue to depict the Soviet bloc as gray and colorless. As Paul Manning (2007) has argued, color becomes a powerful tool for legitimating not only capitalism, but democratic governance as well. An American journalist, for example, recently reflected on her own experience in the region over a number of decades:It's hard to communicate how colorless and shockingly gray it was behind the Iron Curtain … the only color was the red of Communist banners. Stores had nothing to sell. There wasn't enough food… . Lines formed whenever something, anything, was for sale. The fatigue of daily life was all over their faces. Now… fur-clad women confidently stride across the winter ice in stiletto heels. Stores have sales… upscale cafés cater to cosmopolitan clients, and magazine stands, once so strictly controlled, rival those in the West. … Life before was so drab. Now the city seems loaded with possibilities (Freeman 2008).

State Versus Private Ownership: The Conservative Governments and British Civil Aviation 1951–62

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-85
Author(s):  
David R. Devereux
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Similar Degree ◽  
Aircraft Industry ◽  
World War ◽  
Commercial Aircraft ◽  
Policy History ◽  
Aviation Policy ◽  
The Military ◽  
Very High

Studies of post-1945 Britain have often concentrated upon political and foreign policy history and are only just now beginning to address the question of the restructuring of the British economy and domestic policy. Civil aviation, a subject of considerable interest to historians of interwar Britain, has not been given a similar degree of attention in the post-1945 era. Civil aviation policy was, however, given a very high priority by both the 1945-51 Labour government and its Conservative successors. Civil aviation represented part of the effort to return Britain to a peacetime economy by transferring resources from the military into the civil aircraft industry, while at the same time holding for Britain a position of pre-eminence in the postwar expansion of civil flying. As such, aviation was a matter of great interest to reconstruction planners during World War Two, and was an important part of the Attlee government's plans for nationalization.Civil aviation was expected to grow rapidly into a major global economic force, which accounted for the great attention paid it in the 1940s and 1950s. Its importance to Britain in the postwar era lay in the value of air connections to North America, Europe, and the Empire and Commonwealth, and also in the economic importance of Britain's aircraft industry. In a period when the United States was by far the largest producer of commercial aircraft, the task of Labour and Conservative governments was to maintain a viable British position against strong American competition. What is particularly interesting is the wide degree of consensus that existed in both parties on the role the state should play in the maintenance and enhancement of this position.

Post-War International Civil Aviation Policy and the Law of the Air

1963 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-269
Author(s):  
Christopher Shawcross
Keyword(s):  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Aviation Policy ◽  
The Law ◽  
Post War

Fighting Religious Persecution behind the Iron Curtain

2020 ◽  
pp. 95-123
Author(s):  
Lauren Frances Turek
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Reagan Administration ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Iron Curtain ◽  
Religious Persecution ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Network Building

This chapter examines evangelical interest groups on behalf of persecuted Soviet Pentecostals and Baptists during the Reagan administration. It shows how evangelicals combined human rights activism at home with focused network building in the Soviet bloc in order to support their suffering brethren and lay the foundation for expanded evangelistic opportunities in the communist world. It also describes the evangelical organizations and missionary groups that ensured the postcommunist states would guarantee religious liberty for their citizens and allow foreigners to evangelize as the Soviet Union began to collapse during the Bush administration. The chapter discusses how effective were Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favoured regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism. It also investigates why U.S. evangelicals lend support to repressive authoritarian regimes in the name of human rights.

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