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Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War

Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War

Galmarini, Maria Cristina

Hardcover

Series: Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1501773771
ISBN13: 9781501773778
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: Feb 15 2024
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Ambassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was defined by the larger politics of the Cold War and, in many respects, represented a field of competition with the West in which the East could shine. Yet, her study also reveals that socialist blind politics went beyond propaganda. When socialist activists joined the international blind movement, they initiated an exchange of experiences that profoundly impacted everyone involved. Not only did the international blind movement turn global disability welfare from philanthropy to self-advocacy, but it also gave East European and Soviet activists a new set of ideas and technologies to improve their own national movements.

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