Cold War Cities

The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage intersected with existing political and social dynamics. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of urban communities in thirteen cities worldwide, countering many myths about the Cold War era.

Autorentext

Katia Pizzi is Director of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, where she is also Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies. She obtained degrees from the Universities of Bologna, Kent and Cambridge and previously lectured in Italian at the University of Kent. Pizzi has published extensively on modern literary culture, memory and the history of cities, especially Trieste. Marjatta Hietala is Emerita Professor of General History at the University of Tampere and Honorary Doctor at the University of Stockholm. She has been a professor at the University of Helsinki, the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Minnesota. From 2010 to 2015 she was the president of the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS)/Comité international des sciences historiques (CISH). She has written comparative history on the infrastructure of cities, the diffusion of innovations and creative cities, mostly in Europe.

Inhalt

Contents: Katia Pizzi/Marjatta Hietala: Introduction. Cold War Cities: History, Culture and Memory -Barbara Gruning: Commemorating the Berlin Wall: Forms and Spaces of Collective Memory after the Cold War - Gunter Bischof/Stefan Maurer: «One hour east of Vienna ...» At the Crossroads of Europe: Vienna - Bridgehead and Bridge in the Cold War - Katia Pizzi: Cold War Trieste on Screen: Memory, Identity and Mystique of a City in the Shadow of the Iron Curtain - Aleksandra Stupar/Goran AntoniC: Cold War Displacements: Belgrade Memories from a Non-Aligned Realm -Kate Brown: «A Strange Beeping Noise»: The Plutonium Legacy in a Former Cold War Citadel - Paul Dobraszczyk: Chernobyl Diaries: Monuments, Ruins and Memories - Sezgi Durgun: The Izmir Fair in the Cold War: Remembering and Forgetting - Martha Langford/John Langford: A Room with a View: Cold War Cairo - Timo Vilén/Kirsi Ahonen/Sampsa Kaataja/Marjatta Hietala: In Memory of a Cold War Friend: Monuments Commemorating the Finnish-Soviet Relationship in Helsinki and Tampere - Laimonas Briedis: Vilnius and the Vanishing Grave - Eloisa Betti: Bologna in the Early Cold War: Histories and Memories of a Communist City in the West.