The East and Tripartite Industrial Cooperation in the Cold War Era

Gutmann, P.

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“…Yet this mapping is at odds with the historical reality of decolonisation and globalisation, and their impact on urbanisation of the Second and Third worlds. Historians of the Global Cold War have shown that socialist Eastern Europe engaged in extensive exchanges with the decolonising Global South and has participated, albeit in an uneven and liminal manner, in globalisation processes since the 1970s (Boden, 2008; Ginelli, 2018; Gutmann, 2011; Kalinovsky, 2018; Mark et al, 2020; Sanchez-Sibony, 2014). This scholarship suggests the need for a more critical rethinking of the comparative terms of global cities research and postcolonial urbanism and, in general, for a more historically grounded understanding of the conceptual decisions of comparative urbanism.…”

Section: Comparative Worldsmentioning

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Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Stanek

2021

Urban Studies

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This article revisits comparative urban studies produced during the Cold War in the framework of ‘socialist worldmaking’, or multiple, evolving and sometimes antagonistic practices of cooperation between socialist countries in Eastern Europe and decolonising countries in Africa and Asia. Much like the recent ‘new comparative urbanism’, these studies extended the candidates, terms and positionalities of comparison beyond the Global North. This article focuses on operative concepts employed by Soviet, Eastern European, African and Asian scholars and professionals in economic and spatial planning across diverse locations, and shows how they were produced by means of ‘adaptive’ and ‘appropriative’ comparison. While adaptive comparison was instrumental in the application of Soviet concepts in countries embarking on the socialist development path, appropriative comparison juxtaposed concepts from various contexts – whether the ‘West’ or the ‘East’ – in order to select those best suitable for the means and needs on the ground. This article argues that this conceptual production was conditioned by the political economy of socialist worldmaking and shows how these experiences are useful for a more critical advancement of comparative urban research today.

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Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Stanek

2021

Urban Studies

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Buildings for Dollars and Oil: East German and Romanian Construction Companies in Cold War Iraq

Stanek

2021

Contemporary European History

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This article discusses the partial integration of companies from socialist Eastern Europe into the nascent economic globalisation in the late Cold War. By focusing on the industrial slaughterhouse designed and built in Baghdad by East German and Romanian companies (1974–81), it shows how they operated within and across the political economy of state socialism and the emerging, Western-dominated market of construction services. In Baghdad, East Germans and Romanians struggled with working across differing monetary regimes, inefficient corporate structures and the requirement to comply with Western standards and regulations. This article shows how they strived to bypass obstacles and to exploit opportunities stemming from their liminal and unequal position in Iraq. By zooming into architectural and engineering documentation, it argues that petrobarter agreements, or the exchange of crude oil for goods and services, shaped programmes, layouts, technologies and materialities of buildings constructed by Eastern Europeans in Iraq and the region.

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The globalisation process and the Eastern bloc countries in the 1970s and 1980s

Steiner

2014

European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire

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The East and Tripartite Industrial Cooperation in the Cold War Era

Cited by 4 publications

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Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Socialist worldmaking: The political economy of urban comparison in the Global Cold War

Buildings for Dollars and Oil: East German and Romanian Construction Companies in Cold War Iraq

The globalisation process and the Eastern bloc countries in the 1970s and 1980s

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