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Simo Mikkonen, Giles Scott-Smith, Jari Parkkinen (Eds.)
Entangled East and West
Rethinking the Cold War

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Table of Contents

Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith

Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 1

Visual Aesthetics and Diplomacy

Verity Clarkson
The Soviet Avant-Garde in Cold War Britain: the Art in Revolution Exhibition
(1971) 15

Ksenia Malich
“The Collective Approach Does Not Abolish the Individual”: Links between
Soviet Avant-garde Experiments and Architectural Practice in the Netherlands
during the Early Twentieth Century 39

Annette Vowinckel
The Berlin Wall: Photographic Diplomacy in a Globalised World 67

Timo Vilén
“No More Memorials of War.” Helsinki’s Statue of Peace and the Struggle for
Finnish Memory 95

Literary and Scholarly Diplomacy

Astrid Shchekina-Greipel
Lev Kopelev and His Role in German–Soviet Cultural Relations 123

Natalia Tsvetkova
Universities during the Cultural Cold War: Mapping the Research
Agenda 139

Sergei I. Zhuk
Soviet Americanists and American Visual Media in the USSR during the
Brezhnev Era 163
VI Table of Contents

Diplomacy in Music and Performing Arts

Evgeniya Kondrashina
Soviet Music Recordings and Cold War Cultural Relations 193

Viktoria Zora
New Directions in Soviet Music Publishing: Preslit, Am-Rus Music Agency and
Anglo-Soviet Music Press Between 1944 – 48 217

Bruce Johnson, Mila Oiva, Hannu Salmi

Yves Montand in the USSR: Mixed Messages of Post-Stalinist/Western
Cultural Encounters 241

Beyond Cold War Boundaries (Conclusion)

Giles Scott-Smith
Looking for Lagonia: On “Imaginary Bridges” and Cold War
Boundaries 265

Bibliography 281

Index 305
Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith
Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War
The Cold War used to be portrayed as a global struggle between the United States
and the Soviet Union. Even if this image has been challenged many times, the
main images that come to mind when speaking of the Cold War, are often linked
to superpower rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States, the threat
of a military conflict, and nuclear armament. These images have proved tena-
cious regardless of scholarship underlining cooperation across apparent ideolog-
ical division and cross-border interaction instead of hostility. One of the key
weaknesses is that many areas still lack empirical research that would fill in
the gaps and provide material to allow us to re-evaluate the extent and impact
of the Cold War. This volume is intended to serve these needs.
We are keen to add to the process of moving Cold War studies beyond a US-
centric perspective, which ties the study of the era to the actions, policies and
operations of the United States. There is obviously no denying that the United
States was the key player in the Cold War, but the centricity of the US also brings
many drawbacks. Perhaps the most important of these is that it has downplayed
attention toward cooperative and multilateral developments during the Cold War
era. One of the key aims of this volume is to bring to light the transnational con-
nections that took place through cultural diplomacy and cultural exchange in
Europe. For a long time, Cold War studies saw Europe and European countries
either as victims or passive recipients in the US-Soviet rivalry. While this might
seem so from the viewpoint of these superpowers, these countries were also ac-
tive participants with motivations and aims of their own. These features of inter-
European development have often been overshadowed by the superpower rivalry
in Cold War scholarship. By focusing on Europe, this volume continues the re-
cent endeavour to provide a more inclusive interpretation of the impact and de-
velopment of the Cold War in this continent.¹
While Europe provides the geographical backdrop for our volume, one of the
important theoretical foci has been our emphasis on smaller national and trans-
national actors instead of governments. The diverse state and non-state actors
discussed in this volume had very different interests, sometimes irreconcilable

 This volume has been preceded by others focusing on Cold War in the European context, in
particular, Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Katalin Miklóssy (eds.). Reassessing Cold War Europe. Lon-
don: Routledge, 2011; Poul Villaume, Ann-Marie Ekengren, and Rasmus Mariager (eds.). North-
ern Europe in the Cold War, 1965 – 1990: East-West Interactions of Trade, Culture, and Security.
Tampere: Juvenes Print, 2016.

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2 Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith

with and even resisting bipolar Cold War dichotomies. Naturally, as some of the
chapters examine local, regional or national perspectives, there is always a risk
of offering a one-sided perspective on events, or even exaggerating their histor-
ical significance. Yet, by carefully setting these events within a larger context, we
have sought to overcome this risk. We have strived to offer a balanced account,
enriching our understanding of the Cold War as a phenomenon, and the Cultural
Cold War in particular.
The Cultural Cold War is a key concept encompassing this volume. In gener-
al, studies of the Cold War have developed since the early 1990s into a point
where a unified understanding of the Cold War is being constantly challenged.
Most agree that the Cold War was an East-West conflict that became essentially
global and was chronologically situated between the Second World War and
1989. Beyond that, however, the traditional bipolar conflict of either security
or socio-economic rivalry has been challenged by different national, transnation-
al and global explanations, and the introduction of multiple actors.² Can we still
speak of Cold War history, or just transnational and global change during the
second half of the twentieth century? The Cambridge History of the Cold War sug-
gests that a pluralistic interpretation of the Cold War is possible, and even desir-
able. The three volumes of the series move from everyday life to the actions of
statesmen, from military to cultural phenomena.³ Yet, some critics have seen a
danger in this approach, suggesting that it no longer sees the Cold War as a dis-
tinctive epoch, making it difficult to separate from other strands of twentieth-
century history.⁴
Even so, we believe that the traditional political approach that emphasises
foreign policy, state-to-state relationships, and questions of military security is
not enough to understand the phenomenon. In contrast, the Cultural Cold
War, focusing on the arts, everyday life, education, and how social activity in
both East and West was affected by the Cold War, greatly expands the traditional
area of Cold War studies. We do not deny the importance of the traditional ap-
proach to the Cold War, but we argue that an expansion of Cold War studies en-
ables a better understating of how it was experienced on a daily basis at the
“street level”. The Cold War therefore influenced social and cultural life, and

 Federico Romero. Cold War historiography at the crossroads. Cold War History 14, no. 4 (2014):
685 – 703.
 Melvyn P. Leffler and Odd Arne Westad (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Cold War. Cam-
bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
 Lawrence D. Freedman. Frostbitten, decoding the Cold War 20 years later. Foreign Affairs 89,
no. 2 (2010); Holger Nehring. What Was the Cold War? The English Historical Review 127, no. 527
(2012): 923.
 Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 3

in turn was itself a social and cultural phenomenon. By approaching it in this

way, the study of the Cultural Cold War involves new approaches and perspec-
tives that emphasise the relevance of identity, interests, behaviour, social inter-
action, and how they changed over time.
By focusing on East-West interaction, the aim is to point out that despite the
Cold War divide, the exchange of ideas, cultural artefacts, artistic processes and
people continued throughout this period. Confrontation does not automatically
mean suppression of contacts.⁵ Both sides began to use culture and information
in areas they had occupied after the war, paying either little attention to coun-
tries outside their areas of influence, or using more direct means of propaganda,
such as surrogate broadcasting.⁶
Cultural diplomacy directed to countries designated as ideological enemies
was problematic as long as the Soviet Union kept contacts to a minimum and the
United States remained highly suspicious of communism. The death of Stalin
marked a major change in this respect, and it was the Soviet Union rather
than the United States that first began to embrace the potential for cultural di-
plomacy. Although the Soviet Union did not change the aim of its foreign policy,
namely spreading communism, it greatly revised its approach to cultural diplo-
macy, increasing its resources and replacing hardliners who had opposed any in-
teraction with capitalist countries.⁷ Yet, it needs to be underlined that our under-
standing of Soviet cultural diplomacy as part of its overall strategy is still quite
limited in scope.

 Michael David-Fox. The Iron Curtain as Semi-Permeable Membrane: Origins and Demise of the
Stalinist Superiority Complex. In Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across
the Soviet Bloc, Patrick Babiracki, Kenyon Zimmer (eds.). College Station, TX: A&M UP, 2014,
14– 39.
 Perhaps not surprisingly, more studies have been written from the US point of view. A good
overview on US Cold War broadcasting activities directed at socialist countries is offered in A.
Ross Johnson and Eugene Parta. Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe- a Collection of Studies and Documents. Budapest: Central European University Press,
2012. Studies on Soviet Cold War broadcasting are practically non-existent, even if the Soviet
Union used radio broadcasting much earlier and more extensively than the United States, see
e. g. Simo Mikkonen. To control the world’s information flows: Soviet international broadcasting.
In Airy Curtains in the European Ether: Broadcasting and the Cold War, Alexander Badenoch,
Christian Franke, Andreas Fickers (eds.). Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013.
 Nigel Gould-Davies. The Logic of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy. Diplomatic History 27, no. 2
(2003): 193 – 214; Simo Mikkonen. Winning Hearts and Minds? The Soviet Musical Intelligentsia
in the Struggle against the United States during the Early Cold War. In Twentieth-Century Music
and Politics, Pauline Fairclough (ed.). Farnham: Ashgate, 2013; Pia Koivunen. Performing Peace
and Friendship: The World Youth Festival as a Tool of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy, 1947– 1957.
Ph.D. diss., University of Tampere, 2013.
4 Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith

In Cultural Cold War studies, just as in traditional Cold War studies, the
focus has so far been on exchanges between the US and the Soviet Union,
with most research covering American cultural diplomacy. With this volume,
we wish to look beyond the United States and instead bring East-West interac-
tions within Europe to the forefront. While the Soviet Union is often excluded
from European-focused research, our aim has been the opposite, to include
the Soviet Union as an active participant within European connections and inter-
actions. Some of the chapters of this volume discuss official Soviet interaction
with western European states, while others single out individuals and organisa-
tions that played an important part in initiating and tending connections over
ideological and political boundaries. The motivations for these activities, howev-
er, often seem very different when looking at state or non-state actors, as a num-
ber of chapters in this volume point out.
Geographically, the chapters of this volume focus primarily on connections
between the Soviet Union and Western Europe, with some attention given to in-
teraction between East and West Germany and Soviet-Finnish relations. The
chapters also offer some glimpses of Soviet-American interactions, primarily
from the Soviet point of view. Countries included in this book are unique in
many respects. For instance, Finland tried to stay neutral in international poli-
tics, while France was more ready to engage in cultural exchanges with the So-
viet Union than perhaps any other NATO country from the mid-1950s onwards.⁸
The key concepts of this volume, cultural diplomacy and cultural interac-
tion, are not without problems. What do we mean when we speak of East-West
cultural interaction during the Cold War era? What is cultural diplomacy? To-
gether with public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy has become a widely discussed
issue in connection with Cold War studies, as well as more broadly in the study
of international relations. Typically, public diplomacy is considered an overarch-
ing concept encompassing influence on public opinion abroad, the interaction of
private groups between different countries, and intercultural communications
more generally.⁹ From the state perspective, public diplomacy is a label used
to distinguish between the traditional activities of diplomacy and the unofficial
interactions and activities. While the United States had engaged in extensive cul-

 See Timo Vilén’s chapter in this volume; Faye Bartram. Reel Results After One Week: The Cin-
ema and French Cold War Cultural Diplomacy with the USSR, 1955 – 1972. Journal of the Western
Society for French History 44 (2016): 30 – 41.
 Nicholas Cull. Public Diplomacy before Gullion: The Evolution of a Phrase. In Routledge Hand-
book of Public Diplomacy, Nancy Snow, Philip M. Taylor (eds.), 19 – 23. London, New York: Rout-
ledge, 2009; Joseph S. Nye Jr. Public Diplomacy and Soft Power. Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science 616 (2008): 94– 109.
 Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 5

tural relations during the interwar years, the heyday of cultural diplomacy was
really after the Second World War, when many countries, led by the United States
and the Soviet Union, deliberately aimed to influence international public opin-
ion on a large scale.
Cultural diplomacy is therefore regarded here as a distinct area of public di-
plomacy, in which culture is used to enable varied forms of communication that
project and attract support for ideas, beliefs, and values.¹⁰ At the same time, cul-
tural diplomacy also expands the field of diplomacy by involving private actors
that otherwise have little to do with government. This includes artists, adminis-
trators, impresarios, educators, and many other individuals who acted with vary-
ing degrees of autonomy vis-à-vis state authorities. Thus, cultural diplomacy can
refer both to state-to-state contacts as well as people-to-people and other net-
works of non-governmental organisations. This is clearly a major expansion of
the accepted terrain of diplomacy, challenging existing assumptions and compli-
cating the formation of an overall picture. For the purposes of this volume, we
use cultural diplomacy to refer to both state and non-state informational, cultur-
al, and educational exchanges across state borders.

Cultural Cold War – or Cold War Culture

One of the first attempts to provide an overview of the cultural approach to Cold
War studies was an article by Patrick Major and Rana Mitter in Cold War History
(2003). They urged a shift in focus from state politics towards a socio-cultural
history of the Cold War. The subsequent edited volume included chapters on is-
sues such as broadcasting, public opinion, and the production of popular cul-
ture. Instead of international politics, Major and Mitter wanted to emphasise
the production, dissemination, and reception of culture, and the role played
by “cultural actors” in the political realm. Around the same time, the volume
The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945 – 1960 also moved the debate
away from state-to-state diplomacy more towards the study of culture and ideol-
ogy in the Cold War contest. Both of these volumes focused largely on the West,
although the implication of what they were saying was broader.¹¹

 Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht and Mark C. Donfried (eds.). Searching for a Cultural Diplomacy.
New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010.
 Patrick Major and Rana Mitter. East is East and West is West? Towards a Comparative Socio-
Cultural History of the Cold War. Cold War History 4, no. 1 (2003): 1– 22; Patrick Major and Rana
Mitter (eds.). Across the Blocs: Cold War Cultural and Social History. London: Frank Cass, 2004;
6 Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith

In 2010, Gordon Johnston reviewed the development of studies on the Cultur-

al Cold War. He paid attention to the fact that unlike traditional Cold War stud-
ies, the study of the Cultural Cold War was specifically a multidisciplinary area
that brought together disciplines such as history, international relations, political
science, sociology, and cultural studies. Johnston further emphasised the impor-
tant division between the Cultural Cold War and Cold War Culture as indicated by
Major and Mitter in their 2004 volume.¹² The former studies specific efforts by
Cold War protagonists to utilise culture in all its forms in order to achieve polit-
ical goals, in the process influencing (some would say “distorting”) cultural pro-
duction and reception, whereas the latter discusses the everyday modes of be-
haviour and thinking of those who lived during the Cold War.¹³ Both, however,
imply a socio-cultural approach. The difference between the two thus concerns
both methodology and varying interpretations of what culture “means” in differ-
ent settings.
In recent years a number of studies on East-West interaction have appeared,
each one emphasising the role played by a variety of state and non-state actors,
proving that the Iron Curtain was more porous than was initially thought.¹⁴ The
increasing interest in the campaign for human rights as a “catalytic converter”
within East-West relations has focused attention on the role of NGOs in propel-
ling change within societies.¹⁵ A recent turn towards the role of experts has also
begun to map out the influence of international organisations and knowledge
networks in framing “technological bridges” to the Cold War divide.¹⁶ The cumu-
lative effect of this valuable research is to shift our coordinates for understanding
the nature and extent of cross-border, trans-ideological contacts, and how the

Giles Scott-Smith and Hans Krabbendam (eds.). The Cultural Cold War in Western Europe 1945 –
1960. London: Frank Cass, 2004.
 Major and Mitter. Across the Blocs.
 Gordon Johnston. Revisiting the Cultural Cold War. Social History 35, no. 3 (2010): 290 – 307.
 Idesbald Godeeris (ed.). Solidarity with Solidarity: Western European Trade Unions and the
Polish Crisis, 1980 – 1982. Lanham: Lexington, 2010; Annette Vowinkel, Marcus Payk, and Tho-
mas Lindenberger (eds.). Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European So-
cieties. New York: Berghahn, 2012; Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunen (eds.). Beyond the Divide:
Entangled Histories of Cold War Europe. New York: Berghahn, 2015; Kim Christiaens, Frank Ger-
its, Idesbald Godeeris, Giles Scott-Smith (eds.). The Low Countries and Eastern Europe during the
Cold War. Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies 39, no. 3 (2015).
 Poul Villaume and Odd Arne Westad. Perforating the Iron Curtain: European Détente, Trans-
atlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2010;
Poul Villaume, Rasmus Mariager, and Helge Porsdam (eds.). The “Long 1970s”: Human Rights,
East-West Détente, and Transnational Relations. London/New York: Routledge, 2016.
 Michael Christian, Sandrine Kott, and Ondrej Matejka (eds.). Planning in Cold War Europe:
Competition, Cooperation, Circulations 1950s–1970s. Oldenbourg: De Gruyter, 2018.
 Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 7

many-sided “actorness” of civil society provided multiple opportunities for such

engagement, despite the often tense diplomatic and security environment. Our
volume contributes to this significant move in Cold War history by emphasising
the importance of culture as a particular space where dialogue and exchange
took place, both in terms of state agendas (cultural diplomacy) and inter-person-
al interaction (cultural relations).
While US cultural diplomacy has been the focus of a number of volumes, So-
viet cultural diplomacy has received much less attention. Especially the mechan-
ics and general aims of Soviet foreign policy in the sphere of culture have needed
addressing, since existing studies have largely been on the late 1950s only.¹⁷ Re-
cently, however, there have been attempts to include cultural diplomacy as part
of the study of the foreign policy of the Soviet Union and Russia.¹⁸ Furthermore,
studies of the Cultural Cold War include a number of descriptive works written
by former diplomats, politicians, and journalists, some of whom were involved
in cultural diplomacy themselves.¹⁹ Such works can be very valuable for provid-
ing insider accounts, but they also emphasise how young a field the study of the
Cultural Cold War actually is. Empirical studies dominate, especially with regard
to the Soviet Union where archives could not be accessed before the 1990s and
new archival evidence is still available to fill in blank spots. This strong empirical
basis is also evident in this volume as well, with many of the chapters drawing
on previously unused archival sources held in Russia and elsewhere.
From the Russian side, there has been a major re-evaluation of the role
played by culture as part of Soviet foreign policy.²⁰ While information, culture
and education already played an important part in Soviet foreign policy before

 Nigel Gould Davies. The Logic of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy; Simo Mikkonen. Winning hearts
and minds?
 Natalia Tsvetkova. Soft Power and Public Diplomacy. In Russia and the World: Understanding
International Relations, Natalia Tsvetkova (ed.), 231– 251. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London:
Roman & Littlefield, 2017.
 There are many studies authored by former specialists, especially American, which both il-
lustrate the processes of public and cultural diplomacy, as well as the individual experiences of
those involved. See e. g. Yale Richmond. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War: Raising the Iron
Curtain. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2003; Arch Puddington. Broadcasting Free-
dom. The Cold War Triumph of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. University Press of Kentucky,
2000; Richard H. Cummings. Cold War Radio: The Dangerous History of American Broadcasting in
Europe, 1950 – 1989. McFarland, 2009; A. Ross Johnson. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty:
The CIA Years and Beyond. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2010.
 In addition to the works mentioned earlier, the theme has also gained attention among Rus-
sian scholars, see e. g. Oksana Nagornaya. “Nuzhno Peredat’ v Dar Ryad Kartin…” Povorotï So-
vetskoy Kul’turnoy Diplomatii v Periodï Krizisov Sotsialisticheskogo Lagerya 1950-60-Kh Gg. Ab
Imperio 2017 no. 2 (2017): 123 – 143.
8 Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith

the Second World War, after Stalin’s death the Soviet Union revised and upgrad-
ed its cultural diplomacy machinery in order to conduct an outreach campaign
on a truly global scale. While the focus of this volume is on Europe, it must be
noted that from the mid-1950s the Soviet Union pursued modernisation projects,
development aid and the education of foreign citizens in Soviet schools and uni-
versities, all predominantly directed at the countries of the Third World.²¹ At the
same time, Soviet efforts to engage with the West also increased. After decades of
restrictions on cross-border movements, the Soviet Union entered into a number
of bilateral agreements on cultural exchange with western countries for the pur-
pose of expanding tourism, trade, and scientific knowledge. This increased mo-
bility played no small part in the changing outlook of East-West relations from
the mid-1950s onwards.²² Among the bilateral cultural agreements, most atten-
tion has been given to the US-Soviet (Lacy-Zarubin) agreement from 1957, with
a focus on American activities in particular.²³ On the Soviet side, most studies
so far have been on the 1950s and the 1960s, with few works covering the
1970s or the 1980s when state control over academic and scientific exchanges
with the rest of the world became more relaxed (despite the occasional reintro-
duction of restrictions and censorship).

The Structure of This Volume

The first part of this volume dives into visual aesthetics and diplomacy. It dis-
cusses how arts and diplomacy have intersected in a number of ways during
the Cold War years. The section begins with Verity Clarkson’s analysis of So-
viet-British interaction surrounding the Art in Revolution exhibition of 1971.
The exhibition introduced the early Soviet avant-garde to western audiences.
At the time, most of what was exhibited was unknown for both western and So-
viet audiences. The politics surrounding the exhibition demonstrates the many

 Jeremiah Wishon. Soviet Globalization: Indo-soviet Public Diplomacy and Cold War Cultural
Spheres. Global Studies Journal 5, no. 2 (2013): 103 – 114.
 Anne E. Gorsuch. All This is Your World. Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after Stalin. Ox-
ford: Oxford University Press, 2011; Patrick Babiracki, Kenyon Zimmer, and Michael David-Fox
(ed.). Cold War Crossings: International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s–
1960s. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2014.
 Walter L. Hixson. Parting the Curtain: Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945 – 1961.
New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1997; Yale Richmond. Cultural Exchange and the Cold War;
Susan E. Reid. Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhi-
bition in Moscow, 1959. Kritika 9, no. 4 (2008): 855 – 904.
 Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 9

complicating factors related to an ostensibly artistic event. Furthermore, Clark-

son’s case is an excellent example of the interplay between official and unofficial
agendas in East-West cultural interaction. Ksenia Malich continues with the
avant-garde in her study of architecture, examining Soviet influences on Dutch
post-Second World War practices. Malich traces the influences to the inter-war
era, when in the 1930s, foreign specialists were invited to the Soviet Union.
Even if many Dutch architects became disillusioned with the Soviet experience,
experiments in standardised housing and functional cities nevertheless influ-
enced Dutch architecture afterwards. Annette Vowinckel then moves us to pho-
tography and the use of images of the Berlin Wall in West German and US cul-
tural diplomacy. Vowinckel reconstructs the exhibit and points out how the line
between propaganda and cultural diplomacy was thin. The section concludes
with Timo Vilen’s chapter dealing with the ideological struggle over Finnish
memory during the Cold War, represented by a particular statue in Helsinki’s
harbour area. Vilen points out how the struggle between the Finnish political
left and right directly involved the Soviet Union as a participant. The Statue of
Peace also illustrates the importance of national history and memory in shaping
relations between these two nations.
The second part of this volume begins with an examination of scholarly con-
nections and the role of individuals in international connections. This section fo-
cuses on educational exchanges and scholarly cooperation and competition, a
field that has up until recently been relatively neglected.²⁴ Although the focus
of this volume is on Europe, post-Second World War educational exchanges
played an important part in such processes as decolonisation, inter-ideological
dialogue, and inter-regional networks. Astrid Shchekina-Greipel begins with a
chapter examining the influence of a single Soviet individual, Lev Kopelev, on
Soviet-German cultural and scholarly exchange. Kopelev moved from being a
translator of German literature into a dissident and was finally forced to emigrate
to West Germany, where he continued his dissident activities and interaction
with Soviet intellectuals. Kopelev’s case illustrates how the Soviet Union’s treat-
ment of dissidents was anything but straightforward. Kopelev’s connections to

 On Soviet educational exchanges in a global context see Constantin Katsakioris. Soviet Les-
sons for Arab Modernization: Soviet Educational Aid to Arab Countries after 1956. Journal of
Modern European History 8, no. 1 (2010): 85 – 106; Tobias Rupprecht. Soviet Internationalism
after Stalin: Interaction and Exchange between the USSR and Latin America during the Cold
War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015; Julie Hessler. Third World Students at Soviet
Universities in the Brezhnev Period. In Global Exchanges: Scholarships and Transnational Circu-
lations in the Modern World, Ludovic Tournes, Giles Scott-Smith (eds.). New York: Berghahn,
2017.
10 Simo Mikkonen, Jari Parkkinen, Giles Scott-Smith

the West, especially through Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll, made it difficult for
the Soviet state to simply silence or ignore Kopelev due to the possibility of in-
ternational scandal and the subsequent disruption that it could cause to diplo-
matic and economic relations with Western Europe. Kopelev was therefore able
to maintain his role as a cultural mediator in Soviet-German relations over a long
period. Natalia Tsvetkova then shifts the focus to education by analysing Soviet
and American policies towards foreign universities during the Cold War. Tsvetko-
va argues that educational systems and the development of universities as insti-
tutions represented a key but under-researched field of cultural and ideological
confrontation. The US aimed at spreading liberalism through foreign education
systems, while the USSR projected Marxist models for both institutional agendas
and curricula. Sergei Zhuk then discusses the role of Soviet Americanists – aca-
demics who specialised in US history, politics or culture – as sources of informa-
tion for the Kremlin leadership. Zhuk describes how these Americanists acted as
“cultural gatekeepers”, influencing which foreign films may or may not be
shown on Soviet screens. Zhuk focuses on the Brezhnev era (1964– 1982), up
till now a neglected period for the study of the Cultural Cold War.²⁵
The third part of this volume discusses the role played by music in Cold War
cultural exchange. Music played a key role in Soviet cultural diplomacy, but pre-
vious research has focused primarily on artistic mobility.²⁶ Evgeniya Kondrashi-
na examines the important role played by Soviet recordings as transferable and
marketable cultural products in the west. The Soviet recording industry was ini-
tially a part of the overall propaganda effort abroad, but it became a more com-
plex actor by the 1960s. Instead of state-to-state relations, the key partners of the
Soviet government in the West were western businesses like EMI whose interests
were primarily commercial. Kondrashina sheds new light on the complexity of
cultural production and exchange in the East-West setting. Viktoria Zora’s chap-
ter adds to this by detailing how Soviet music publishing operated in the Anglo-
phone world after the Second World War. Zora’s case illustrates the difficulties
faced by Soviet officials, trying to popularise Soviet music abroad, especially
in the capitalist countries. The obstacles they faced were not only internal, bu-
reaucratic ones, but also related to the need of western companies and firms
to make a profit. Both Kondrashina’s and Zora’s chapters emphasise how com-

 Dina Fainberg and Artemy Kalinovsky underline this gap in Fainberg and Kalinovsky. Recon-
sidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era: Ideology and Exchange. Lanham: Rowman and Little-
field, 2016.
 Kirill Tomoff. Virtuosi Abroad: Soviet Music and Imperial Competition during the Early Cold
War, 1945 – 1958. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2015.
 Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 11

mercial, and not only ideological, factors played a considerable role in the inter-
action between East and West.
The section closes with Bruce Johnson, Mila Oiva and Hannu Salmi’s chapter
on the visit of Italian-French actor and singer Yves Montand to the Soviet Union
in 1956. Montand was hugely popular in the Soviet Union and his concerts there
were attended by audiences of up to 20,000. But Montand’s visit also took place
at a sensitive time, since it coincided with the Soviet invasion of Hungary. As a
result of that, NATO countries temporarily froze projects on cultural exchange
with the Soviet Union. Despite this, Montand decided to pursue the original
plans and continued with his tour. Montand’s visit is analysed from a number
of angles, using newspaper coverage, film footage and other evidence to illus-
trate how the presumption of a propaganda victory for the Soviet Union, in
the form of Montand’s celebrity endorsement of the regime, needs to be bal-
anced with more critical conclusions that highlight the tour’s ironic and ambig-
uous nature.
The volume concludes with a chapter by Giles Scott-Smith, which uses the
flight of West German teenager Mathias Rust to Red Square in 1987 as a symbolic
event for investigating Cold War boundaries in both an analytical and geograph-
ical sense. The epic flight of Rust has generally been typecast as the act of a way-
ward teenager with delusions of fostering peace with the Soviet Union. Regarded
as an eccentric, Rust’s act has so far not received any serious attention within
Cold War studies. Yet, Scott-Smith interprets his flight as a symbolic transgres-
sion of both the East-West boundary and the boundaries of Cold War studies,
which determine who is and who is not an actor worthy of attention in East-
West relations. By making use of the concept of “airworld” and delving into
the cultural context of Rust and his motivations, this chapter recasts his flight
at the end of the Cold War as an important moment in European Cold War cul-
ture, when an “ordinary citizen” rejected the restrictions on freedom of move-
ment across one of the most heavily defended borders on the continent. By
means of this approach, the chapter rounds off the volume by raising questions
on the place of agency, the ways the Cold War divide influenced behaviour, and
the difficulty in ascertaining the precise motivation behind significant events. As
a result, the volume ends by pointing to still-to-be-explored fields of Cold War
research hitherto ignored or downplayed, rather than claiming any “closure”
or completeness regarding interpretations of the Cold War. Ultimately, the further
the Cold War recedes into history, the more there is to be questioned, investigat-
ed, and discussed.
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