Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War

1. Editors’ Introduction
Patryk Babiracki, Austin Jersild

Part I. The Second World Under Stalin

2. Coming to Terms with Europe: Konstantin Simonov and Oles’ Honchar’s Literary Conquest of East Central Europe at the End of World War II
Lars Peder Haga

3. The Stalin Cult and the Construction of the Second World in Hungary in the Early Cold War Years
Balázs Apor

Part II. Post-Stalinist Entanglements in the Second World

4. Two Stairways to Socialism: Soviet Youth Activists in Polish Spaces, 1957–1964
Patryk Babiracki

5. Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe
David Crowley

Part III. Second World Cultures

6. Ties That Bind, Ties That Divide: Second World Cultural Exchange at the Grassroots
Kyrill Kunakhovich

7. Soviet Cinematic Internationalism and Socialist Film Making, 1955–1972
Marsha Siefert

Part IV. Internationalism and the Iron Curtain

8. Motocross Mayhem: Racing as Transnational Phenomenon in Socialist Czechoslovakia
Mark Keck-Szajbel

9. Friends, “Potential Friends,” and Enemies: Reimagining Soviet Relations to the First, Second, and Third Worlds at the Moscow 1957 Youth Festival
Pia Koivunen

Part V. Between the Second and the Third Worlds

10. Peace and Progress: Building Indo-Soviet Friendship
Jeremiah Wishon

11. Red China in Central Europe: Creating and Deploying Representations of an Ally in Poland and the GDR
David G. Tompkins

12. Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Guinea-Conakry, 1956–1965: The Second World in the Third World
Austin Jersild

13. Afterword: Promises and Paradoxes of Socialist Internationalism (Personal and Historical Reflections)
Alfred Rieber

Keywords: History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics