History of Science During the Cold War Under the Microscope

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Dalia Báthory ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
East European ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
European Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East West ◽  
Ideological Context

The general post-communist perspective of historiography on the Cold War era is that the world was divided into two blocs, so different and isolated from one another that there was no interaction between them whatsoever. As revisionist literature is expanding, the uncovered data indicates a far more complex reality, with a dynamic East-West exchange of goods, money, information, human resources, and technology, be it formal or informal, official or underground, institutional or personal. The current volume History of Communism in Europe: Breaking the Wall: National and Transnational Perspectives on East-European Science tries to confer more detail to this perspec­tive, by bringing together research papers that focus on the history of science during the Cold War. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, from biology to philosophy and from espionage to medical practices, all sharing an ideological context that continuously impacted and molded the professional relations among scholars from both sides of the Iron Curtain.

scholarly journals Исследования Pоссии/СССР и стран Восточной Европы после холодной войны: новое лицо дисциплины

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Olga Bolshakova
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
New Developments ◽  
East European ◽  
Global Character ◽  
History Of ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
The Cold War

The paper deals with the new developments in the field of Russian and East European studies (REES) after the end of the Cold war, with the focus on the U.S. and Great Britain. Along with organizational and structural changes in the field special attention is devoted to new subjects and trends in the study of the region, with Belarus as a case study. Research in this field began in the 90s and has been booming since the 2000s. Researchers are primarily interested in the history of the country, political science, anthropology, and literary studies. The formation of an international community of researchers allows us to conclude that previously “Western” discipline of REES is gaining a global character.

scholarly journals Jenseits von Kiel: Zu einer Wissenschaftsgeschichte der quantitativ-theoretischen Wende in der deutschsprachigen Geographie

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 301-307
Author(s):  
Boris Michel ◽  
Katharina Paulus
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Contextual Framework ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract. This editorial provides a theoretical and contextual framework for the themed issue “Raum. Gesetze. Daten.”. The article calls for a broader historiographic analysis of the quantitative-theoretical turn in German-speaking geography. We propose a research agenda that aims at writing a history of science beyond monumental history and classical intellectual history, that focuses on the messiness of history and takes the historicity of systems of thought into account. The endeavour is part of a growing interest in the history of science in the context of the cold war, cybernetic thinking and post-Fordist capitalism.

Broadening the Cultural History of the Cold War: The Emergence of the Polish Workers' Defense Committee and the Rise of Human Rights

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 104-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Brier
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
International Context ◽  
East European ◽  
Human Rights Advocacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opposition Group ◽  
The Cold War

The historiography of the Cold War has witnessed a revived interest in non-material factors such as culture and ideology. Although this incipient cultural history of the Cold War has focused mainly on the period from 1945 until the early 1960s, the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 turned ideas into potent factors of international politics when East European opposition groups began to expose how their governments violated the accord's human rights provisions. By putting the emergence of one such opposition group, the Polish Workers' Defense Committee, in an international context, this article extends Cold War cultural history into the 1970s and 1980s, tracing how human rights ideas affected international and domestic politics. The Communist states' willingness to put up with the human rights provisions in the Helsinki Final Act was not sufficient to “shame” them internationally. Instead, what happened is that Western leftists, after encountering East European dissidents, increasingly perceived human rights as a precondition for the success of their own political project and hence revoked what Robert Horvath calls the “revolutionary privilege” long granted to Communist regimes. Because Communism's identity was so closely related to its struggle with the West, this criticism was particularly damaging. Only within the dynamics of a cultural framework from earlier stages of postwar history did transnational human rights advocacy become effective.

scholarly journals Cultural Looting and Restitution at the Dawn of the Cold War: The French Recovery Missions in Eastern Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 588-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Cœuré
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Cultural Property ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East West

France was massively affected by Nazi looting and plundering, and was also probably one of the most successful countries in securing the return of cultural property. Drawing on recently opened Archives, this article reflects on the entangled history of the ‘recovery’ of works of art in Soviet occupation zones, in Poland, Czechoslovakia and in the GDR, focusing on the French investigations in the East. The micro history of this fieldwork allows for an interpretation of looting and restitution as a transnational moment of political and memory construction. The article first presents the organization of missions in the changing landscape of Europe, leading to the beginning of an East-West relationship on the ground. Then it analyses French and Soviet visions of the notion of looting, restitution and cultural property and finally concludes by attempting to interpret a loss of memory.

scholarly journals El Documental y la historia de los vencidos: la década perdida en Ecuador a través de los documentales sobre Alfaro Vive Carajo.

Ñawi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Rubén Garrido Sanchis
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East West

La utilización del documental como un testimonio histórico ayuda a la construcción de un relato histórico más amplio. Esto es especialmente interesante a la vista de la creación de una “historia de los vencidos” que aporta visiones que chocan con la interpretación doctrinaria del pasado. Para ello nos basaremos en los documentales de “Alfaro vive, del sueño al caos “(sabel Dávalos, 2007) y "Alfaro Vive Carajo" (Mauricio Samaniego, 2015) como ejemplos del rescate de otras miradas referentes al conflicto guerrillero de Alfaro Vive Carajo (AVC) durante el Ecuador de la década de los 80. Abstract The use of the documentary as a historical testimony helps to build a larger historical narration. This is especially interesting in view of the creation of a history of the defeated that brings visions against the doctrinal interpretation of the past. For this we will be based on the documentaries of Isabel Dávalos Alfaro vive, del sueño al caos (2007) and Mauricio Samaniego Alfaro Vive Carajo (2015) as examples of the rescue of other glances referring to the guerrilla conflict of Alfaro Vive Carajo (AVC ) at ecuador during the 80’s. Ending with a criticism of the topic of binary “East-West” speeches during the Cold War era.

scholarly journals El Documental y la historia de los vencidos: la década perdida en Ecuador a través de los documentales sobre Alfaro Vive Carajo

Ñawi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Rubén Garrido Sanchis
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
East West

La utilización del documental como un testimonio histórico ayuda a la construcción de un relato histórico más amplio. Esto es especialmente interesante a la vista de la creación de una “historia de los vencidos” que aporta visiones que chocan con la interpretación doctrinaria del pasado. Para ello nos basaremos en los documentales de “Alfaro vive, del sueño al caos “(sabel Dávalos, 2007) y "Alfaro Vive Carajo" (Mauricio Samaniego, 2015) como ejemplos del rescate de otras miradas referentes al conflicto guerrillero de Alfaro Vive Carajo (AVC) durante el Ecuador de la década de los 80. Abstract The use of the documentary as a historical testimony helps to build a larger historical narration. This is especially interesting in view of the creation of a history of the defeated that brings visions against the doctrinal interpretation of the past. For this we will be based on the documentaries of Isabel Dávalos Alfaro vive, del sueño al caos (2007) and Mauricio Samaniego Alfaro Vive Carajo (2015) as examples of the rescue of other glances referring to the guerrilla conflict of Alfaro Vive Carajo (AVC ) at ecuador during the 80’s. Ending with a criticism of the topic of binary “East-West” speeches during the Cold War era.

Global Development

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Lorenzini
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
History Of Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

In the Cold War, “development” was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds around the globe, from Europe and Africa to Asia and Latin America. This book provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world. Taking readers from the aftermath of the Second World War to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, the book shows how development projects altered local realities, transnational interactions, and even ideas about development itself. The book shines new light on the international organizations behind these projects—examining their strategies and priorities and assessing the actual results on the ground—and it also gives voice to the recipients of development aid. It shows how the Cold War shaped the global ambitions of development on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and how international organizations promoted an unrealistically harmonious vision of development that did not reflect local and international differences. The book presents a global perspective on Cold War development, demonstrating how its impacts are still being felt today.

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