War of Words: The USSR and Cold War Linguistic Competition in Global South
K262, CGIS Knafel 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis talk argues language politics played an important role in the Global Cold War.This talk argues language politics played an important role in the Global Cold War. In the aftermath of decolonization, Soviet officials viewed themselves as having been drawn into a new field of Cold War competition with their western rivals—not only for the […]