Beschreibung:
Jan Zofka is a Research Fellow at the Leibniz-Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO) Leipzig. He specializes in the transnational history of Cold war socialist economies and is author of the articles "Chairman Cotton: Socialist Bulgaria's cotton trade with African countries during the early Cold War (1946-70)", Journal of Global History (2021); "Technokratischer Internationalismus. Kohle-Experten der DDR der 1950er Jahre in globalgeschichtlicher Perspektive" Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2021; and the monograph Postsowjetischer Separatismus: Die pro-russländischen Bewegungen im Dnjestr-Tal und auf der Krim (1989-1995) (2015).
This volume examines relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and socialist Eastern European states during the Cold War. It contributes to the growing scholarship on East-South and intra-bloc relations from the perspective of global and transnational history.
Introduction Beyond the Kremlin's reach? Eastern Europe and China in the Cold War era 1. Performing socialist Hungary in China: 'modern, Magyar, European' 2. Socialist exhibits and Sino-Soviet relations, 1950-60 3. Sino-Czechoslovak cooperation on agricultural cooperatives: the twinning project 4. Kremlinology revisited: the nuances of reporting on China in the Eastern bloc press 5. China as a role model? The 'Economic Leap' campaign in Bulgaria (1958-1960) 6. Promoting the 'China Way' of communism in Poland and beyond during the Sino-Soviet Split: the case of Kazimierz Mijal 7. A Hungarian model for China? Sino-Hungarian relations in the era of economic reforms, 1979-89