Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Quinn Slobodian
  • Socialist chromatism : race, racism and the racial rainbow in East Germany / Quinn Slobodian
  • Part I. Aid anders?
  • Through a glass darkly : East German assistance to North Korea and alternative narratives of the Cold War / Young Sun Hong
  • Between fighters and beggars : socialist philanthropy and the imagery of solidarity in East Germany / Gregory Witkowski
  • Socialist modernization in Vietnam : the East German approach, 1976-1989 / Bernd Schaefer
  • Part II. Ambivalent solidarities
  • William "Bloke" Modisane to Margaret Legum, 1966
  • Bloke Modisane in East Germany / Simon Stevens
  • African students and the politics of race and gender in the German Democratic Republic, 1957-1990 / Sara Pugach
  • Ambivalence and desire in the East German "Free Angela Davis" campaign / Katrina Hagen
  • True to the politics of Frelimo? : teaching socialism at the Schule der Freundschaft, 1981-1990 / Jason Verber
  • Part III. Socialist mirrors
  • "The black facade of the universities of German revisionism"
  • The red flag of the university of foreign trade, 1968
  • The uses of disorientation : socialist cosmopolitanism in an unfinished DEFA-China documentary / Quinn Slobodian
  • Imposed dialogues : Jorg Foth and Tran Vu's GDR-Vietnamese co-production Dschungelzeit (1988) / Evan Torner and Victoria Rizo Lenshyn
  • Part IV. Internationalist remains
  • Affective solidarities and East German reconstruction of postwar Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel
  • La idea de Carlos Marx : tracing Germany through a long Cuban imaginary / Jennifer Ruth Hosek & Victor Fowler Calzada.