Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy : the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War

Science, (anti-)communism and diplomacy the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in the early Cold War

From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, the US and USSR – this volume offers...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kraft, Alison, editor (editor), Sachse, Carola, 1951- editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL 2020.
Series:Beiträge zur Geschichte der Kirchenmusik; volume18.
Subjects:
Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs.
Nuclear disarmament.
Cold War > History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009757840706719
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Thinker’s Lodge
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Contributors
  • The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs: Vision, Rhetoric, Realities / Alison Kraft and Carola Sachse
  • Founding a Transnational Network of Concerned Scientists in a Bipolar World
  • Science, Peace and Internationalism: Frédéric Joliot-Curie, the World Federation of Scientific Workers and the Origins of the Pugwash Movement / Geoffrey Roberts
  • Patronage Impossible: Cyrus Eaton and His Pugwash Scientists / Carola Sachse
  • Pugwash and the Superpowers
  • Party, Peers, Publicity: Overlapping Loyalties in Early Soviet Pugwash, 1955–1960 / Fabian Lüscher
  • American Scientists in “Communist Conclaves:” Pugwash and Anti-communism in the United States, 1957–1968 / Paul Rubinson
  • Minding the Gap: Zhou Peiyuan, Dorothy Hodgkin, and the Durability of Sino-Pugwash Networks / Gordon Barrett
  • Pugwash at the Central European Frontier
  • “Salonbolschewiken:” Pugwash in Austria, 1955–1965 / Silke Fengler
  • Czechoslovak Ambitions and Soviet Politics in Eastern Europe: Pugwash and the Soviet Peace Agenda in the 1950s and 1960s / Doubravka Olšáková
  • Confronting the German Problem: Pugwash in West and East Germany, 1957–1964 / Alison Kraft
  • Blurring the Borders of a New Discipline: The Achievements and Prospects of Pugwash History / Matthew Evangelista
  • Back Matter
  • Index.

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