Representation of the Cold War in Soviet Live-Action Films: Conjuncture and Historical Memory

History and Human Rights

Feminism for the Americas ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649696.003.0010 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 225-236

Author(s):

Katherine M. Marino

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Human Rights ◽

Cold War ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Women's Rights ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Historical Record ◽

Women’S Rights ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

The Cold War

The Epilogue demonstrates how the UN Charter’s women’s and human rights promises inspired feminists throughout the Americas, and how the Cold War stifled the movement and largely erased the historical memory of inter-American feminism. Paulina Luisi and Marta Vergara helped organize an inter-American feminist meeting in Guatemala in 1947 that articulated broad meanings of inter-American feminism and global women’s and human rights. However, the Cold War’s pitched battle between communism and capitalism narrowed both “feminism” and “human rights” to mean individual political and civil rights. The Cold War also contributed to historical amnesia about this movement. The epilogue explores how Cold War politics affected each of the six feminists in the book. Each woman sought in different ways to archive the movement and write inter-American feminism into the historical record. The epilogue also provides connections between their movement and the global feminist and human rights movements that emerged in the 1970s through the 90s. It argues that the idea that “women’s rights as human rights” was not invented in the 1990s; rather, it drew on the legacy of early twentieth-century inter-American feminism.

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Translating Economics into Politics in Cold War Germany

German Politics & Society ◽

10.3167/gps.2007.250207 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 104-116

Author(s):

James C. Van Hook

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

European Integration ◽

Economic History ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Point Of View ◽

Social Market Economy ◽

Economic Point ◽

The Moment ◽

Social Market ◽

The Cold War

Economics and economic history have a fundamental role to play in our understanding of Cold War Germany. Yet, it is still difficult to establish concrete links between economic phenomena and the most important questions facing post 1945 historians. Obviously, one may evaluate West Germany's “economic miracle,” the success of western European integration, or the end of communism in 1989 from a purely economic point of view. To achieve a deeper understanding of Cold War Germany, however, one must evaluate whether the social market economy represented an adequate response to Nazism, if memory and perspective provided the decisive impulse for European integration, or if the Cold War ended in Europe because of changes in western nuclear strategy. Economic history operates in relation to politics, culture, and historical memory. The parameters for economic action are often as determined by the given political culture of the moment, as they are by the feasibility of alternative economic philosophies.

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