Alternative Globalizations

Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World

James Mark editor Artemy M Kalinovsky editor Steffi Marung editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Indiana University Press

Published:11th Feb '20

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Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness across a socialist world.

Alternative Globalizations is fully rewarding. That the contributions challenge frequently used categories, complicate binary narratives inherited from the Cold War, and show interconnections, where most of us would not assume them to have played a crucial role, is another highly appreciated trait.

* Eurasian Geography and Economics *

Gathering contributions which analyse the many shapes of socialist internationalism during the post-war period, the book proposes a renovated and multifaceted frame of globalization. . . . The ambitious objectives of the collection are fulfilled in so far as the global scenario of the entangled processes of Cold War and decolonization is described as a multilocal and multivocal context whose effects reverberate in the contemporary globalization.

-- Arianna Pasqualini * Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists *

This edited volume is a significant contribution to knowledge that broadens our understanding of the global Cold War setting. It challenges both the dominant research paradigms and current hegemonic narratives about this period. The book can be taken as a starting point and its chapters as an inspiration and introduction to discovering and exploring the work of its authors more widely. Due to its broad implications, it does not only appeal to historians of the post-1945 world. Rather, it is equally interesting to scholars studying contemporary societies that once took part in socialist globalizing projects and postcolonial and postsocialist contexts across Central and Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia.

-- Jelena Đureinović * Studies of Transition States and Societies *

New anthology publication Alternative Globalizations. Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World represents, in the best light, the strength of the current trend in world historiography, which is increasingly focused on global history. Such a view of history reveals completely new contexts and motivations of various participants in events. Not only the main players of the Cold War are taken into account, but also the interests and motivations of participants not only from Europe but also from other continents of the world.

-- ONDŘEJ BĚLÍČEK * A2la

ISBN: 9780253046505

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Weight: 685g

352 pages