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Peace and Progress: Building Indo-Soviet Friendship

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In his chapter, Jeremiah Wishon explores the foundations of Indian-Soviet “friendship” preceding the signing of the 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation. Wishon investigates festivals such as Moscow’s 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in 1957 and the 1960 World Agricultural Fair in New Delhi, arguing that these sites of encounter between Indian and Soviet citizens and officials helped pave the way for subsequent diplomatic developments between the two countries. Rather than pointing to diplomatic moments such as the 1952 Indo-Soviet cultural treaty, he articulates a story of foreign relations through group and personal reactions to official state ideologies. Drawing on archival and published material from Russia and India, the contribution focuses on the ways in which the participants in the 1957 festival and the 1960 fair described the impact of these events on their own views of their international partner.

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  1. University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

    Jeremiah Wishon

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  1. University of Texas at Arlington , Arlington, Texas, USA

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  2. Old Dominion University , NORFOLK, Virginia, USA

    Austin Jersild

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Wishon, J. (2016). Peace and Progress: Building Indo-Soviet Friendship. In: Babiracki, P., Jersild, A. (eds) Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32570-5_10

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