Author Description

The Eastern International Is A Study Of How The Concept Of The East Was Used By The World's First Communist State And Its Mediators To Organize Space And To Project, Channel, And Contest Power Across Eurasia. It Is A Story Of How Various Intermediaries Tried To Shape The Global Conversation About Decolonization In An Effort To Build Support And Win Global Legitimacy For The Soviet Union As An Anti-colonial State Power. They Succeeded In This Task Because The Ideas Of Anti-capitalism, Anti-fascism, And Liberation From Colonial Exploitation Inspired So Many Around The World. Recontextualizing Soviet History Within A Global Frame, My Project Shows How The Ussr Popularized Critiques Of Capitalism, Fascism, And Colonialism Through Propaganda, Education, Cultural Relations And Later, Through Political And Economic Aid In International Eastern Regions, As It All The While Concealed Other Inequalities And Forms Of Exploitation, Including In Its Domestic East. By Telling These Stories While Concealing Others, These Mediators Contributed To The Marginalization Of The Soviet Union From Conversations About Cultural And Political Decolonization Happening In The Middle East And Elsewhere. My Book Reinscribes Soviet History Into Postcolonial Studies And Global History-- Provided By Publisher.