James Mark - Socialism Goes Global: The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonisation

First of all, we would like to thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) for their funding of the Socialism Goes Global: Cold War Connections Between the Second and Third Worlds project (AH/M001830/10), which enabled most of the research and writing time necessary to complete this book. The project was based at the University of Exeter and directed by James Mark. The team would like to express its deep gratitude to James for overseeing the project so ably and energetically from start to finish. James also acknowledges the support of a Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) fellowship, which provided time to complete the analysis and writing. We would also like to note the generous support of the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Grant no. NN 115711, 20152018), which kindly covered Bogdan C. Iacobs expenses, along with additional research costs in Romania and Hungary. A grant from the DFG (German Research Council) in the framework of SFB 1199 helped subsidise further research in Germany.

We would like to recall the conversations at meetings we held between 2014 and 2018, the richness of which still continue to inspire and inform our writing. Special thanks go to Kristin Roth-Ey, Magorzata Mazurek, Natasha Telepneva, Nemanja Radonji and Zoltn Ginelli for their support, intellectual engagement and, in some cases, the research material that they shared. Individual research contributions are noted at the start of each chapter. Their authored contributions are represented in our companion volume, edited by Kristin Roth-Ey: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War: Global Socialism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). Sections of the Culture chapter were first published in Paul Betts, Ruin and Renewal: Civilising Europe after the Second World War (London: Profile Books, 2020) and thanks to Profile for providing permission to reproduce them. We would like to thank the Museum of Yugoslavias director, Neda Kneevic, and her staff, for their great assistance in helping to organise and host a spin-off project of the researchthe Tito in Africa: Picturing Solidarity photography showand for producing the accompanying bilingual English and Serbian exhibition catalogues. Thanks too should be expressed to Philip Grover at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and Justin Jampol and Joes Segal at the Wende Museum in Los Angeles for their cooperation with the traveling exhibition. The proceeds from the sales of the exhibition catalogue were donated to the London-based charity the Swawou School Foundation, which builds girls schools in Sierra Leone. Many thanks to its director Callum Campbell for making this possible.

Further thanks to Cathryn Steele at Oxford University Press for shepherding the project so expertly. We are greatly indebted to Martin Thom, whose detailed and imaginative copy-editing and proofreading helped raise the level of the writing in many places. We were very privileged to have Arnia van Vuuren as our indexer; despite her illness, she remained committed to the book and produced an index of great quality based on an insightful grasp of its arguments. It is a great loss to the profession that that there will not be indexes after this one, and we are terribly sad that she was not able to see the final result published.