14 October 2022 It has been a long standing academic mantra that, during the Cold War, the Socialist Bloc was more or less a closed system, made of several satellite states which followed the communist path, as designed by the USSR. Over the past decade, cutting-edge scholarship has started to dismantle this mantra and show … Continue reading Call For Papers: “A Music So Popular That No Curtain Could Contain: Popular Music and Cultural Transfers during the Cold War” International Workshop, on December 5, 2022, at NEC