Astrid Hedin: Conscripting Civilians, Gebunden
Conscripting Civilians
- Communist Travel Administration in the Cold War
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- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 06/2027
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781498594325
- Artikelnummer:
- 12708262
- Umfang:
- 272 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 234 x 156 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 10.6.2027
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Why did communist states build elaborate procedures to control who could travel to the West? This open access book argues that travel administration was designed not merely for surveillance, but as an instrument of political warfare, broadly conceived.
Under classified travel regulations, even routine travel by state-sector employees served broader foreign-policy goals. All travelers were to be covertly vetted for political reliability, individually instructed to represent the state, and debriefed upon their return.
Conscripting Civilians argues that travel administration effectively conscripted academics, doctors, engineers, and other professionals into the Cold War struggle over narratives, sympathies, and political identities. Examples from East German university contacts with Sweden illustrate how this broader system operated in practice.
> The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections. com. Open access was funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
