The talk examines the widespread practice of youth exchanges during the late Cold War through two seemingly peripheral actors: the Romanian Pioneers, the children’s organization of the Romanian Communist Party, and one of its most active partners in the west, the International Falcons Movement, a leftwing youth organization with national branches in Germany, Austria, the United Kingdom, and France. Following Romanian and foreign teens who traveled as cultural ambassadors to youth camps organized in the Soviet bloc and Western Europe, the talk examines competing visions and practices of socialist internationalism in order to illuminate the role of “soft power” during the Cold War.
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Wednesday, October 10
Red Children’s Republics: Socialist Internationalism and Transnational Youth Exchanges During the Late Cold War
Time:
12:00 pm
Presenter:
Diana Georgescu, University College London
Location:
4130 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, European Studies Center and Global Studies Center along with Children’s Literature Program and Cultural Studies Program
Contact Phone:
412-648-7407
Contact Email:
crees@pitt.edu