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Navigating global socialism: Tanzanian students in and beyond East Germany
Eric Burton1,2
1Research Project 'Socialism Goes Global', Department of History, University of Exeter, UK.
Abstract:
This article investigates tensions and dynamics in global socialism through a focus on Tanzanian students in East Germany between the late 1950s and 1990. Disciplinary techniques partially known from Tanzania and everyday strategies of survival explain why most students complied with official requirements, but did not necessarily agree with East German ideological tenets. Additionally, throughout the decades, mobility across the Iron Curtain remained an important strategy to further own interests. The article concludes that an analytical framework spanning several decades and paying attention to dynamics in the country of origin sheds new light on agency and mobility among 'East', 'West', and 'South' during the Cold War.
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