Editors' Introduction
PART I: THE SECOND WORLD UNDER STALIN
Ch. 1. Lars Peder Haga, "Coming to Terms with Europe: Konstantin Simonov and Oles' Honchar's Literary Conquest of East Central Europe at the End of World War II"
Ch. 2. Balázs Apor, "The Stalin Cult and the Construction of the Second World in Hungary in the Early Cold War Years, 1949-1953"
PART II: POST-STALINIST ENTANGLEMENTS IN THE SECOND WORLD
Ch. 3. Patryk Babiracki, "Two Stairways to Socialism: Soviet Youth Activists in Polish Spaces, 1957-1964"
Ch. 4. David Crowley, "Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe"
PART III: SECOND WORLD CULTURES
Ch. 5. Kyrill Kunakhovich, "Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide: Second-World Cultural Exchange at the Grassroots"
Ch. 6. Marsha Siefert, "Second World Cinema: Soviet Film Outreach from 1955-1972"
PART IV: INTERNATIONALISM AND THE IRON CURTAIN
Ch. 7. Mark Keck-Szajbel, "Motocross Mayhem. Racing as Transnational Phenomena in Socialist Czechoslovakia."
Ch. 8. Pia Koivunen, "Friends, 'Potential Friends' and Enemies: Reimagining Soviet Relations to the First, the Second and the Third Worlds at the Moscow 1957 Youth Festival"
PART V: BETWEEN THE SECOND AND THE THIRD WORLDS
Ch. 9. Jeremiah Wishon, "'Peace and Progress': Building Indo-Soviet Friendship"
Ch. 10. David Tompkins, "Imagining a Red China in Central Europe: Visions of an Ally and Enemy in Poland and the GDR"
Ch. 11. Austin Jersild, Sino-Soviet Rivalry in Guinea-Conakry, 1956-1965: The Second World in the Third World
AFTERWORD Ch. 12. Alfred Rieber, Promises and Paradoxes of Socialist Internationalism (Personal and Historical Reflections).