Description
As decolonization accelerated in the years after the Second World War, dynamic new linkages opened up between the so-called “Second World” (from the Soviet Union to the GDR) and the “Third World” (from Latin America to Africa to Asia). Nikita Khrushchev trumpeted the expansion of a “socialist world system,” and multi-lateral contacts proliferated through political connections, economic development and trade relationships, educational projects and cultural exchange, migration, and military training and intervention. This course explores the new historiography of the Second-Third World encounter, offering new insights into the global circulation of ideas during the Cold War and evaluating the fate of socialist modernity as an alternative globalization.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
Last updated
This module description was last updated on 19th August 2024.