The project explores international children’s camps as forms of cultural diplomacy in the global Cold War from the “pericentric” perspective of the Romanian Pioneer Organization. Examining interrelated East-East and East-West youth exchanges in the Soviet bloc and Western Europe, it will produce the first archive-based study of the Romanian Pioneers’ international agenda and contribute to debates in the history of childhood and youth, internationalism, cultural diplomacy and the Cold War.

A full-length study is available here.

A full-length study is available here.