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Fostering Communist Elites: Cold War Czechoslovakia's Foreign Student Program, Emily Hackett
Fostering Communist Elites: Cold War Czechoslovakia's Foreign Student Program, Emily Hackett
Slavic Studies Honors Papers
During the Cold War, educational policy became a strategic and consequential avenue of soft power. Countries on both sides of the East-West divide developed travel and study exchanges to cultivate relationships with other countries, and to prepare future generations for work in an increasingly internationalized world. Despite supporting a fear of foreigners and isolating people from travel outside of the Communist bloc, the Soviet Union sponsored select students from other countries to study in its institutions of higher education.
This thesis aims to provide insight into the structure and events of the Czechoslovak foreign student program with the Soviet Union …
Black October: The Migration Of Black Americans To The Soviet Union In The Interwar Period, Alice Volfson
Black October: The Migration Of Black Americans To The Soviet Union In The Interwar Period, Alice Volfson
Slavic Studies Honors Papers
Through an in-depth look at first-person accounts, primary documents, and archival research, this project broadens the scope of information available about the interwar migration of Black Americans to the Soviet Union for agricultural, industrial, and artistic initiatives which helped advance the Socialist Project. These men and women had different motivations for their emigration stemming from racial solidarity with various Soviet peoples, economic reasonings, and safety from American racism. This paper hopes to bring to life the stories of those whose legacies have been lost to history by uncovering their lives under communism, their achievements and recognitions, and that of their …
Skeletons In The Soviet Closet: The Last Tsar And His Family In The Early Soviet Era, 1918-1937, Olivia Chap
Skeletons In The Soviet Closet: The Last Tsar And His Family In The Early Soviet Era, 1918-1937, Olivia Chap
Slavic Studies Honors Papers
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