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Book SynopsisThe Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of thirteen cities worldwide and the lived experience of urban communities during the long Cold War: activated and mobilized by atomic technologies, taking tourist photographs, attending commercial fairs, enjoying the cinema and the ballet, singing in choirs, paying respect in local cemeteries, visiting museums, and responding to town councils, unions and the local press. Literature, film, photography, the press, the monument, the cemetery, the factory, the ruin, the archive and the natural ecosystem are some of the key frameworks of cultural production elucidated here with a view to countering and exploding received myths about the Cold War.
Table of ContentsContents: Katia Pizzi/Marjatta Hietala: Introduction. Cold War Cities: History, Culture and Memory –Barbara Gruning: Commemorating the Berlin Wall: Forms and Spaces of Collective Memory after the Cold War – Gunter Bischof/Stefan Maurer: «One hour east of Vienna …» At the Crossroads of Europe: Vienna – Bridgehead and Bridge in the Cold War – Katia Pizzi: Cold War Trieste on Screen: Memory, Identity and Mystique of a City in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain – Aleksandra Stupar/Goran AntoniĆ: Cold War Displacements: Belgrade Memories from a Non-Aligned Realm –Kate Brown: «A Strange Beeping Noise»: The Plutonium Legacy in a Former Cold War Citadel – Paul Dobraszczyk: Chernobyl Diaries: Monuments, Ruins and Memories – Sezgi Durgun: The İzmir Fair in the Cold War: Remembering and Forgetting – Martha Langford/John Langford: A Room with a View: Cold War Cairo – Timo Vilén/Kirsi Ahonen/Sampsa Kaataja/Marjatta Hietala: In Memory of a Cold War Friend: Monuments Commemorating the Finnish–Soviet Relationship in Helsinki and Tampere – Laimonas Briedis: Vilnius and the Vanishing Grave – Eloisa Betti: Bologna in the Early Cold War: Histories and Memories of a Communist City in the West.
