How the Soviet Union Opened to the World - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video in on the Moscow Youth Festival of 1957 - the event that opened the Soviet Union to the world and allowed the leadership of the USSR to present a new side of the country to a wider public

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Sources
Peacock, Margaret, “The perils of building Cold War consensus at the 1957 Moscow World Festival of Youth and Students,” Cold War History, Vol.12, No.3 (2012)
Koivunen, Pia, Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy (Oldenbourg, De Gruyter: 2022)
Tsipursky, Gleb, Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption, & State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945-70 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016)
​​https://www.rbth.com/history/335295-world-festival-youth-65
https://www.rbth.com/history/330727-how-soviet-union-discovered-jeans
https://vestnik-mgou.ru/Articles/View/14267 (Russian)
https://soviet-art.ru/6th-world-festival-of-youth-in-ussr/
https://www.academia.edu/19007478/MOSCOW_SUMMER_NIGHTS_Impressions_of_the_1957_International_Festival_of_Youth_and_Students
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-01445R000100050001-2.pdf
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