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Title: Soviet and Eastern European Reactions to American Exhibitions: Cultural Exchange and the Cold War, 1961-1976.
Creator: Miller, Jennie, Solonari, Vladimir, Lester, Connie, Walker, Ezekiel, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: After the signing of the Cultural Exchange Agreement in 1958, exhibitions of culture and technology were exchanged between the Soviet Union and the United States. These exhibitions continued to be exchanged well into the 1980s. This paper focuses on comment books from seven of these cultural exchange exhibitions, five in the Soviet Union and two in Eastern Europe, in the years between 1961 and 1976. The public nature of the comment books and the way they were treated by visitors made them a...
Show moreAfter the signing of the Cultural Exchange Agreement in 1958, exhibitions of culture and technology were exchanged between the Soviet Union and the United States. These exhibitions continued to be exchanged well into the 1980s. This paper focuses on comment books from seven of these cultural exchange exhibitions, five in the Soviet Union and two in Eastern Europe, in the years between 1961 and 1976. The public nature of the comment books and the way they were treated by visitors made them a space for expressions of popular opinions over the issues of public policy and ideology. As such, they provide contemporary historians with a unique glimpse into the mindset of ordinary Soviet and Eastern European citizens during the Cold War. Based on the evidence from the comment books, and using methods elaborated by cultural anthropologists, this study shows that challenged by the display of apparent American superiority, most Soviet visitors preferred to fall back on the official ideology which claimed the moral superiority of their system. In the 1960s and early 1970s, the Soviet citizens experienced an upswing in communist morale, expressed a desire to compete with America and a conviction that their system will ultimately prevail over capitalism. However, to what extent such declarations should be accepted at their face value as sincere expressions of Soviet citizens' deep-seated convictions and to what extent they should be seen as situational responses to the perceived humiliation at the hands of foreigners remains unclear.While most Soviet visitors were defensive, invested in their ideology, and competitive with America, their reactions were not monolithic. Some of them were clearly fascinated by American consumer products and expressed an envious yearning to get possession of them; others stressed their openness to cultural exchange. There were apparently sincere expressions of support to the policy of d(&)#233;tente, and of outrage over the Vietnam War. The Soviet visitors were aware of the unrest in American society caused by the civil rights movement, but were uninformed of the profound changes effected by this movement. Members of non-Russian minorities were interested in American ethnic diversity and sometimes implied their dislike of Moscow treatment of non-Russian nationalities. Eastern Europeans were less defensive and more open to American society and culture than the Soviets. Still, some of them also expressed pro-communist sentiments and national pride. There was one issue, however, on which the Soviets and Eastern were clearly more in tune with American popular culture than with their own governments: consumerism and the sentiment of entitlement to the high quality goods that Americans had access to while they did not. It was on this issue that the eastern bloc regimes were facing the greatest threat.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: CFE0004414, ucf:49384
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0004414

Title: A HISTORICAL VIEW OF CUBAN IMMIGRATION POLICY.
Creator: Castro, Sarah, Naccarato-Fromang, Gina, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description: Cuba is a communist country an estimated population of 11,075,244(2013), Cuba is located about ninety-three miles south of Key West, Florida. Cuba has been ruled by the communist regime of Fidel Castro, and now his younger brother Raul Castro. For over fifty years this regime has forced a major increase in the amount of people migrating to the United States. The regime has been disregarding basic human rights for decades and oppressing Cuba's citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have...
Show moreCuba is a communist country an estimated population of 11,075,244(2013), Cuba is located about ninety-three miles south of Key West, Florida. Cuba has been ruled by the communist regime of Fidel Castro, and now his younger brother Raul Castro. For over fifty years this regime has forced a major increase in the amount of people migrating to the United States. The regime has been disregarding basic human rights for decades and oppressing Cuba's citizens. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans have come to the United States using boats, rafts, or any means available. The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 (amended in 1994 to contain the Wet Foot, Dry Foot Policy) states that if Cubans trying to reach the United States are intercepted at sea, they will be sent back to Cuba, or a third country. If they make it to United States soil, they will have the chance to start the journey to becoming citizens of the United States. Many Cubans die at sea trying to reach the United States for this chance at citizenship. There have been attempts to implement immigration policy in the past. President Obama is now trying to reform current immigration laws. What effects could a new immigration policy have on Cuban immigration versus the legislation put forth in the past? This study will be an examination and analysis of past and Cuban immigration policy and issues. This research paper utilizes government websites, news articles, presidential addresses, books and various sources to address this question. My hope is that this study will help to explain the impact past policies and reform had on Cuban immigration, and the impact proposed policy and current issues may have in the future.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: CFH0004517, ucf:45215
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFH0004517

Title: Leninism, the only Marxism today: A discussion of the characteristics of declining capitalism.
Creator: Bittelman, Alex
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 886201, CFDT886201, ucf:5612
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/886201

Title: Guide to the XII plenum E.C.C.I: Material for propagandists, organisers, reporters, training classes.
Creator: Communist International Executive Committee
Date Issued: c1931
Identifier: 886195, CFDT886195, ucf:5606
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/886195

Title: Letters from afar.
Creator: Lenin, Vladimir Il'ich
Date Issued: n.d.
Identifier: 671415, CFDT671415, ucf:5582
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671415

Title: I accuse stalinism!: An open letter to the C.C. of the Communist Party of Germany and the E.C.C.I.
Creator: Reese, Maria
Date Issued: 1933
Identifier: 671413, CFDT671413, ucf:5580
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671413

Title: Why Communism? Plain talks on vital problems.
Creator: Olgin, Moissaye J. (Moissaye Joseph)
Date Issued: 1935
Identifier: 671412, CFDT671412, ucf:5579
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671412

Title: The Soviet union and the fourth International, the class nature of the soviet state.
Creator: Trotsky, Leon, Communist league of America (opposition), Vanzler, Joseph Usick
Date Issued: 1934
Identifier: 671410, CFDT671410, ucf:5577
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671410

Title: Karl Marx: Forty years after (1883-1923).
Creator: Johnson, Olive M. (Olive Malmberg), De Leon, Daniel, Socialist Labor Party
Date Issued: 1924
Identifier: 671405, CFDT671405, ucf:5572
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671405

Title: The meaning of social-fascism: Its historical and theoretical background.
Creator: Browder, Earl Russell
Date Issued: 1933
Identifier: 671397, CFDT671397, ucf:5564
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671397

Title: The October revolution and the struggle for socialism.
Creator: Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich
Date Issued: c1932
Identifier: 671346, CFDT671346, ucf:5561
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671346

Title: Ten years: History and principles of the left opposition.
Creator: Shachtman, Max
Date Issued: 1933
Identifier: 671343, CFDT671343, ucf:5558
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671343

Title: Technocracy and Marxism.
Creator: Foster, William Z., Browder, Earl, Molotov, Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich
Date Issued: 1933
Identifier: 671331, CFDT671331, ucf:5547
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671331

Title: Moscow vs. Peking: The meaning of the great debate.
Creator: Novack, George Edward, Warde, William F. (pseudonym), Farber, Nathan
Date Issued: c1963
Identifier: 671327, CFDT671327, ucf:5543
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671327

Title: On the nature of revolution: The Marxist theory of social change. Based on a series of broadcasts made over Station KPFA, Berkeley, California, February-April, 1959.
Creator: Aptheker, Herbert
Date Issued: 1959
Identifier: 671283, CFDT671283, ucf:5533
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671283

Title: Social-democracy and the war.
Creator: Jerome, Victor Jeremy
Date Issued: 1940
Identifier: 671281, CFDT671281, ucf:5531
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671281

Title: China's new democracy.
Creator: Mao, Zedong
Date Issued: c1943
Identifier: 671275, CFDT671275, ucf:5525
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/671275

Title: Resolutions; including also the closing speech of Georgi Dimitroff.
Creator: Dimitrov, Georgi, Communist International 7th Congress, Moscow, 1935
Date Issued: 1935
Identifier: 370503, CFDT370503, ucf:5503
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370503

Title: Turning point in China.
Creator: Mao, Zedong
Date Issued: 1948
Identifier: 370377, CFDT370377, ucf:5490
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370377

Title: Trotskyism and the Cuban revolution: An answer to Hoy.
Creator: Hansen, Joseph
Date Issued: 1962
Identifier: 370374, CFDT370374, ucf:5487
Format: Document (PDF)
PURL: http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/370374

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