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BEYOND THE DIVIDEEntangled Histories of Cold War EuropeEdited by Simo Mikkonen and Pia Koivunenhttp://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=MikkonenBeyondCold War history has emphasized the division of Europe into two warring camps with separate ideologies and little in common. This volume presents an alternative perspective by suggesting that there were transnational networks bridging the gap and connecting like-minded people on both sides of the divide. Long before the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were institutions, organizations, and individuals who brought people from the East and the West together, joined by shared professions, ideas, and sometimes even through marriage. The volume aims at proving that the post-WWII histories of Western and Eastern Europe were entangled by looking at cases involving France, Denmark, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, and others.ContentsIntroduction: Beyond the DividePART I: POLITICAL PROCESSES AND TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKSChapter 1. Opening Up Political Space: Informal Diplomacy, East-West Exchanges, and the Helsinki ProcessGiles Scott-SmithChapter 2. Challenging Old Cold War Stereotypes: the Case of Danish-Polish Youth Exchange and the European Détente, 1965–75Marianne RostgaardChapter 3. Transmitting the “Freedom Virus”: France, the USSR, and Cultural Aspects of European Security CooperationNicolas BadalassiChapter 4. Cultural Diplomacy of Switzerland and the Challenge of Peaceful Coexistence, 1956–75Matthieu GillabertPART II: INTERPLAY IN THE ACADEMIC CONTEXTSChapter 5. Expert Groups Closing the Divide: Estonian-Finnish Computing Cooperation since the 1960sSampsa KaatajaChapter 6. French-Romanian Academic Exchanges in the 1960sBeatrice ScutaruChapter 7. Hungary Opens toward the West: Political Preconditions for Finnish-Hungarian Cooperation in Research and Development in the 1960s and 1970sAnssi HalmesvirtaChapter 8. “Discrete” Intermediaries: Transnational Activities of the Fondation pour une entraide intellectuelle européenneIoana PopaPART III: LIMITATIONS FOR TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKSChapter 9. The Image of “Real France”: Instrumentalization of French Culture in the Early Communist CzechoslovakiaVáclav ŠmidrkalChapter 10. Dealing with “Friends”: Soviet Friendship Societies in Western Europe as a Challenge for Western DiplomacySonja GrossmannChapter 11. The Soviet Union Encounters Anglia: Britain’s Russian Magazine as a Medium for Cross-Border CommunicationSarah DaviesPART IV: ALONG THE BORDERLINESChapter 12. Transnational Television in Europe: Cold War Competition and CooperationLars LundgrenChapter 13. Transnational Spaces between Poland and Finland: the Grassroots Dismantling of the Iron Curtain and Their Political EntanglementsAnna MatyskaChapter 14. A Filter for Western Cultural Products: the Influence of Italian Popular Culture on Yugoslavia, 1955–65Francesca RolandiNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex