scholarly journals Foreign Trade Prices in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. By Edward A. Hewett. Soviet and East European Studies Series. New York and London: Cambridge University Press, 1974. xii, 196 pp. $17.50.

Slavic Review ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-844
Author(s):  
John P. Hardt
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
European Studies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Mutual Economic ◽  
East European ◽  
Mutual Economic Assistance ◽  
Trade Prices

Foreign Trade Prices in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance.

1975 ◽  
Vol 85 (337) ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Jozef M. van Brabant ◽  
E. A. Hewett
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Mutual Economic ◽  
Mutual Economic Assistance ◽  
Trade Prices

Chairman cotton: Socialist Bulgaria’s cotton trade with African countries during the early Cold War (1946–70)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jan Zofka
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Foreign Trade ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Mutual Economic ◽  
Mutual Economic Assistance ◽  
Globalization Studies ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Cotton Trade

Abstract This article follows Bulgarian officials engaged in cotton and textile exchange with African states in the early Cold War. These officials founded enterprises for carrying out transactions, collected information on prices at international cotton exchanges and attended meetings of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) to coordinate trade activities in capitalist markets. Exploring how Bulgarian foreign trade organizations positioned themselves on the scene of international trade, this article argues that cotton traders, instead of upholding the supposed bloc bipolarity of the Cold War, followed the logic of the markets they worked in. A focus on trade infrastructures in particular shows that early Cold War East–South trade was not as strictly bilateral as official agreements and statistics suggest and reveals the systematic embeddedness of the socialist traders’ practices in global capitalist structures. In the field of cotton, the globalizing economy of the early Cold War was not cut in half, as globalization studies have implied.

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