Filmmakers from Africa and the Middle East at VGIK during the Cold War

Chomentowski, Gabrielle

doi:10.1080/17503132.2019.1590914

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“…As a consequence, most students of cinema and the plastic arts were holders of state scholarships. 71 If the training of students in Europe and across the Soviet Union entailed a significant cost from the standpoint of individual host socialist countries and the CCTA, it also appeared to have important advantages compared to the creation of schools abroad. Such training provided plenty of opportunities to teach the students Marxist-Leninist philosophy and political economy, and to familiarise them with the history of the Soviet Union and international communism.…”

Section: The Council For Mutual Economic Assistance and International Educationmentioning

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The Socialist Countries, North Africa and the Middle East in the Cold War: The Educational Connection

Katsakioris

2021

Contemporary European History

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This article revisits the Eastern Bloc's educational assistance provided to North Africa and the Middle East during the Cold War. It highlights the political and economic premises, interests and policies at play, and investigates the role of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. It examines the creation of schools in North Africa and the Middle East and the training of students in the socialist countries. The article argues for the centrality of education in the international policy of the Eastern Bloc, further demonstrating its importance in the political economy of the relations with the countries of North Africa and the Middle East.

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Section: The Council For Mutual Economic Assistance and International Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%