Tobias Rupprecht is Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Exeter.

• Introduction: the end of Soviet isolationism after 1953; 1. A modern image for the USSR: Soviet self-representation towards Latin Americans; 2. Moscow learns the mambo: Latin America and internationalism in Soviet popular culture; 3. Paradise lost and found: Latin American intellectuals in and on the Soviet Union; 4. From Russia with a diploma: Latin American students in the Soviet Union; 5. Desk revolutionaries: Soviet Latin Americanists and internationalism in the late Soviet Union; Conclusion: Soviet internationalism after Stalin and its domestic and foreign audiences.

'Tobias Rupprecht has high aspirations in his pathbreaking study of Soviet-Latin American encounters: to put Russia in global history, to put Latin America in Soviet history, and to put culture into the study of international relations. Using sources from Brasilia to Bogata to Moscow, he succeeds admirably in Soviet Internationalism after Stalin.' David C. Engerman, Brandeis University, Massachusetts