Article ID: CBB312896155

Socialist exhibits and Sino-Soviet relations, 1950–60 (2018)

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Jersild, Austin (Author)


Cold War History
Volume: 18
Issue: 3
Pages: 275-289


Publication Date: 2018
Edition Details: Special issue: Beyond the Kremlin’s Reach? Eastern Europe and China in the Cold War Era.
Language: English

Socialist bloc exhibits in China in the 1950s communicated ideas about the future prosperity and development to be brought to China in the wake of its alliance with the socialist world, the role of socialism in preserving and maintaining folk and traditional culture, and the role of the bloc in extending the virtues of European high culture to the East. The Soviets proudly displayed Russia’s historic contribution to high culture as well as information about contemporary events at the Bol’shoi Theater and other cultural institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the East Germans and the Czechoslovaks similarly emphasized the prestige and quality of their past artists and composers as well as their contemporary symphonies and orchestras. The Chinese, however, were increasingly disappointed both with socialist bloc approaches to Chinese development as well as with depictions of Chinese culture that reminded them of the heritage of European imperialism. They complained in the exhibit “comment books” about methods, practices and technology that offered little to unique Chinese “conditions” and “peculiarities.” They were frustrated by the inefficiencies of Soviet-style socialism, and they even complained about the food at the Moscow Restaurant. By the end of the decade, the exhibits served as yet another example of the miscommunication, frustration and dispute over models of development that contributed to the Sino-Soviet split.

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Authors & Contributors
Zofka, Jan
Péter Vámos
Urbansky, Sören
Burton, Eric
Montmerle, Thierry
Gnoinska, Margaret K.
Concepts
Cold War
International relations
Political science
Geopolitics
Communism
Transnational history
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Places
Soviet Union
China
United States
Eastern Europe
Hungary
Middle and Near East
Institutions
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Bolshoi Ballet Company
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
International Council of Scientific Unions
International Red Cross
International Astronomical Union (IAU)
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