Rethinking Cooperation in Cold War Europe

Ulf Schmidt is Senior Professor of Modern History at University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments (2015), Karl Brandt - The Nazi Doctor (Bloomsbury, 2007) and Justice at Nuremberg (2004).Will Studdert is Research Fellow at University of Hamburg, Germany. He is the author of The Jazz War: Radio, Nazism and the Struggle for the Airwaves in World War II (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).

• IllustrationsTablesContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction DIFFICULT FRIENDSHIPS ACROSS THE ‘NYLON CURTAIN’Ulf Schmidt and Will Studdert Part IPOLITICS & PROPAGANDAChapter 1‘FOR UK EYES ONLY’: THE SECRET AFTERLIFE OF THE INFORMATION RESEARCH DEPARTMENT, 1977–1985Will StuddertChapter 2AMERICAN WOMEN PEACE ACTIVISTS’ CONNECTIONS TO SOVIET WOMEN’S ORGANISATIONS DURING THE COLD WAR, 1962–1990Lara TrackChapter 3MAPPING BRITISH CULTURAL TOURS: ACROSS, AROUND, AND AVOIDING THE ‘NYLON CURTAIN’Edward CorsePart IIIDEAS & CONCEPTSChapter 4DRAFTING DEONTOLOGY: TADEUSZ KIELANOWSKI AND HANS JONAS ON THE ETHICS OF HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION, 1933–1979Ulf Schmidt, David Peace, and Will StuddertChapter 5‘NO LITTLE PRINCE DRUG’: THE NOOTROPIC CONCEPT ANDTHE COLD WAR PURSUIT OF HUMAN ENHANCEMENT, 1949–1984David PeaceChapter 6SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT: POLISH HUMANISTS IN THE ANNALES COMMUNITY DURING THE COMMUNIST PERIODPatryk Pleskotand David PeacePart IIISCIENCE & CULTUREChapter 7MENTAL BLOCS: COLLABORATION WITHIN BRAIN RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS ACROSS POST-WAR EUROPE, 1957–1991Kate DockingChapter 8THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL MAGAZINE PANNONIA AND DEBATES ON CENTRAL EUROPE, 1973–1990Oliver SterchiChapter 9BEYOND CLASSIFICATION: HEAVY METAL AND PUNK IN EAST GERMANY, 1980–1990Mona Vollert and Will Studdert Part IVENVIRONMENT & TECHNOLOGYChapter 10PROTECTION PROFESSIONALS: A CASE STUDY OF THEFERTÖ-NESIEDLER AREA IN HUNGARY AND AUSTRIAMelinda Harlov-CsortánChapter 11THE ROAD TO THE WEST: UKRAINIAN ENVRIONMENTAL ACTIVISTS DURING THE LATE PERESTROIKA PERIODTetiana PergaChapter 12‘BIOTECH SAMURAI’: HOW BRITAIN AND HUNGARY LOOKED TO JAPAN TO COMMERCIALISE BIOTECHNOLOGY, 1971–1989James Farley and David PeaceBibliographyIndex