Maria Cristina Galmarini, Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, 2024. Pp. 302. ISBN 978-1-5017-7377-8. $56.95 (hardcover).
Abstrak
Maria Cristina Galmarini ’ s Ambassadors of Social Progress is one of the few recently published studies on disability history in the former Soviet Union. It analyses how blind acti-vists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe engaged with the worldwide post-war disability movement and influenced its development and direction. The book ’ s first part analyses the history of the international blind movement, which the author reconstructs from the period between the two world wars until the beginning of the 1970s, which marked the heyday of socialist leadership. The second part focuses on the work conducted by the two most influential groups of blind activists of the Soviet bloc, the VOS (All-Russian Society of the Blind) in the Soviet Union and the BSV (Union of the Blind and Low-Sighted) in East Germany, and by their leaders, during the central decades of the Cold War.
Penulis (1)
Corinne Doria
Format Sitasi
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2024
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1017/s0007087424001250
- Akses
- Open Access ✓