Empire of friends: Soviet power and socialist internationalism in Cold War Czechoslovakia

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Notes

¹ John Connelly, Captive University: The Sovietization of East German, Czech, and Polish Higher Education, 1945–1956 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000); Bradley Abrams, The Struggle for the Soul of the Nation: Czech Culture and the Rise of Communism (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); Jan Behrends, “Agitation, Organization, Mobilization: The League for Polish-Soviet Friendship in Stalinist Poland,” in The Sovietization of Eastern Europe: New Perspectives on the Postwar Period, ed. Balázs Apor, Peter Apor, and E.A. Rees (Washington: New Academia Publ., 2008); Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger, eds., Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012); Patryk Babiracki, Soviet Soft-Power in Poland: Culture and the Making of Stalin’s New Empire, 1943–1957 (Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, 2015); see also the articles from the issue of Slavic Review on global socialism (vol. 77, no. 3, 2018); Muriel Blaive, ed., Perceptions of Society in Communist Europe: Regime Archives and Popular Opinion (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

² Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, eds., Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009); and Susan Reid, “Cold War in the Kitchen: Gender and the Destalinization of Consumer Taste in the Soviet Union under Khrushchev, ” Slavic Review 61, no. 2 (2002): 211–52.

³ For a similar critique of earlier scholarship see Laurie Koloski, “Review of John Connolly, Captive University: the Sovietization of East German, Czech and Polish Higher Education, 1945–1956,” Minerva 42, no. 3 (September 2004): 312–13.

⁴ Such documents have been published in volumes that draw on materials on Soviet-Eastern Bloc relations from the Russian archives; see for example: T. V. Volokitina, T. M. Islamov, G. P. Murashko, A. F. Noskovoa, and L. A. Pogovaya, eds., Vostochnaya Evropa v dokumentakh rossiiskikh arkhivov (Moscow: Sibirskii khronograf, 1997).

⁵ Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, The Soviet Bloc: Unity and Conflict (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960); Karel Kaplan, Sovětští poradci v Československu, 1949–1956 (Ústav pro soudoubé dějiny AV ČR, 1993); and Igor Lukes, “Rudolf Slánský: his Trials and Trial, ” CWIHP Working Paper 50 (July 2011).