Rupprecht Tobias. Soviet Internationalism after Stalin. Interaction and Exchange between the USSR and Latin America during the Cold War

Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 345 p.Late Stalinism, the period between the end of the Second World War and the death of the dictator in 1953, was the most isolated period of Soviet history. The political leaders saw the world as divided into two parts, and everything outside their own camp as ruled by unalterably hostile capitalist and imperialist war-mongers, eager to annihilate the Soviet Union. Internationalism, once a fundamental Bolshevik principle, had long been subordinated to the political goals of ‘socialism in one country’ after Lenin’s death and Trotsky’s ousting; foreign contacts had abated from the mid 1930s. While the Second World War had forced a specific form of violent interaction with the world abroad upon Soviet citizens, the USSR, with the onset of the Cold War in 1947, isolated itself more than ever from foreign countries beyond the control of the Soviet Army. Scholars were cut off from most international scientific discourse,and compliant writers claimed any not able invention to be of Russian origin. ‘Cosmopolitanism’ came to be a perilous reproach during a renewed terror against the populations of now both the Soviet Union and its new satellite states and annexed territories in eastern Europe.Introduction: the end of Soviet isolationism after 1953.
A modern image for the USSR: Soviet self-representation towards Latin Americans.
Moscow learns the mambo: Latin America and internationalism in Soviet popular culture.
Paradise lost and found: Latin American intellectuals in and on the Soviet Union.
From Russia with a diploma: Latin American students in the Soviet Union.
Desk revolutionaries: Soviet Latin Americanists and internationalism in the late Soviet Union.
Conclusion: Soviet internationalism after Stalin and its domestic and foreign audiences.