Winter Kept Us Warm

Selected and edited papers, originally presented at the 9th Aleksanteri Conference at the University of Helsinki, 2009..

Notes on contributors -- Glossary of terms and abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Katalin Miklossy -- Introduction: Cold war interactions reconsidered / Sari Autio-Sarasmo and Brendan Humphreys -- Fighting the cold war with violins and trumpets: American symphony orchestras abroad in the 1950's / Jonathan Rosenberg -- Cold war communications: the experience of American exchange exhibitions in the Soviet Union, 1959-1991 / Tomas Tolvaisas -- The Polish origins of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Question of Method" / Nancy Jachec -- Western in style, socialist in content? Visual representations of GDR consumer culture in the Neue Berliner Illustrierte (1953-64) / Isabelle de Keghel -- Fostering a "convergence with reality" : East German foreign policy experts' contacts with the capitalist west / Stephen J. Scala -- The heirs of the future: Soviet and American foreign correspondents meeting youth on the other side of the iron curtain / Dina Fainberg -- "This film is harmful" : Resizing America for the Soviet Union / Andrei Kosovoi -- Intellectual activism during the cold war: Icelandic socialists and their international networks / Rosa Magnusdottir -- Life-stories reconnected: publishing tamizdat as a symbolic act of recreating biographical coherence across the iron curtain / Friederike Kind-Kovacs -- Kicking the ball over the wall: footbal and agency in communist East Germany / Mike Dennis -- List of references -- Name index..

Includes bibliographical references and index..