| Titre | Une seule façon d'être communiste ? L'internationalisme dans les parcours biographiques au Conseil d'aide économique mutuelle | |
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| Auteur | Simon Godard | |
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Revue | Critique internationale |
| Numéro | no 66, janvier-mars 2015 Communismes et circulations transnationales | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Thema - Communismes et circulations transnationales |
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| Page | 69-83 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Only One Way to Be a Communist? How Biographical Trajectories Shaped Internationalism among COMECON Experts Shifting away from the totalitarian paradigm of the Cold War to the history of everyday-life, the historiography of communism first denied the existence of a true unification process in the Eastern Bloc, before becoming indifferent to the question. Though they have received little attention, the international communist organizations of the Cold War era constituted laboratories for internationalism. In the field of economics, the socio-history of East German public servants working with and for the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) casts light on three different ways of being an internationalist. To various degrees, the diplomats, brokers and career experts of COMECON adopted the habitus of a new transnational community of communist economists. The construction of an identity as an Internationalist and the possibility to consider the Eastern Bloc as a relevant professional and symbolic frame of reference was determined by the biographical histories of COMECON experts. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
