Kleinstaaten und sekundäre Akteure im Kalten Krieg: Politische, wirtschaftliche, militärische und kulturelle Wechselbeziehungen zwischen Europa und Lateinamerika

This edited volume puts “small states and secondary actors” into the center of a Cold War history on relations, entanglements, and cooperation among Latin American and European countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain. The volume is coedited by two historians with diverse areas of expertise: Kateřina Březinová, an expert on Chicano iconography and Czechoslovak documentary cinema, among other topics; and Albert Manke, who has published widely on the Cuban revolution. Their joint publication project emerged from a conference at the Metropolitan University Prague in 2013, which had its sole focus on Czechoslovak–Latin American relations. Eight of the thirteen chapters in the edited volume are based on presentations from this 2013 conference and therefore focus on Czechoslovak–Latin American relations. As both the introduction and these chapters convincingly argue, Czechoslovakia's ties to Latin America were especially close in comparison to those of other Soviet-bloc states. The contributors to the book...