Looking for Lagonia: On “Imaginary Bridges” and Cold War Boundaries

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Exploring Culture in and of the Cold War 1
4. Visual Aesthetics and Diplomacy
5. The Soviet Avant-Garde in Cold War Britain: the Art in Revolution Exhibition (1971) 15
6. “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
7. The Berlin Wall: Photographic Diplomacy in a Globalised World 67
8. “No More Memorials of War.” Helsinki’s Statue of Peace and the Struggle for Finnish Memory 95
9. Literary and Scholarly Diplomacy
10. Lev Kopelev and His Role in German–Soviet Cultural Relations 123
11. Universities during the Cultural Cold War: Mapping the Research Agenda 139
12. Soviet Americanists and American Visual Media in the USSR during the Brezhnev Era 163
13. Diplomacy in Music and Performing Arts
14. Soviet Music Recordings and Cold War Cultural Relations 193
15. New Directions in Soviet Music Publishing: Preslit, Am-Rus Music Agency and Anglo-Soviet Music Press Between 1944–48 217
16. Yves Montand in the USSR: Mixed Messages of Post-Stalinist/Western Cultural Encounters 241
17. Beyond Cold War Boundaries (Conclusion)
18. Looking for Lagonia: On “Imaginary Bridges” and Cold War Boundaries 265
19. Bibliography 281
20. Index 305