Complementary assistance: multilateral exchanges between the Soviet Union, China and Eastern European countries in Cold War Mongolia

Erofeev, Nikolay

dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-09T09:08:06Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-09T09:08:06Z
dc.date.issued	2024-05-20
dc.identifier	doi:10.17170/kobra-2024080110620
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/15963
dc.description.sponsorship	Gefördert im Rahmen eines Open-Access-Transformationsvertrags mit dem Verlag	ger
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	Namensnennung 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Cold War	eng
dc.subject	development	eng
dc.subject	technical assistance	eng
dc.subject	construction sites	eng
dc.subject	infrastructure	eng
dc.subject	civilisational hierarchies	eng
dc.subject	division of labour	eng
dc.subject.ddc	300
dc.subject.ddc	710
dc.subject.ddc	900
dc.title	Complementary assistance: multilateral exchanges between the Soviet Union, China and Eastern European countries in Cold War Mongolia	eng
dc.type	Aufsatz
dcterms.abstract	During the Cold War, large-scale urban development projects were launched in Mongolia with technical assistance from various socialist countries – China, East Germany (the GDR), Poland, Czechoslovakia and, above all, the Soviet Union. Looking at the involvement of these dissimilar countries to Mongolia, this article challenges simplistic narratives about bilateral East-South exchanges, and frames socialist development assistance as multilateral, asymmetric and complementary. It argues that some of the iconic projects of socialist development in Mongolia could hardly be called products of any one donor’s aid programme, and instead required the cooperation of various providers, collaborating on multiple, interconnected fronts. Such multilateral assistance was marked by highly hierarchical racialised divisions of labour, and created strong interdependencies between various countries involved in Mongolia.	eng
dcterms.accessRights	open access
dcterms.creator	Erofeev, Nikolay
dc.relation.doi	doi:10.1080/14682745.2024.2328702
dc.subject.swd	Sowjetunion	ger
dc.subject.swd	China	ger
dc.subject.swd	Osteuropa	ger
dc.subject.swd	Mongolei	ger
dc.subject.swd	Ost-West-Konflikt	ger
dc.subject.swd	Entwicklung	ger
dc.subject.swd	Technische Hilfe	ger
dc.subject.swd	Baustelle	ger
dc.subject.swd	Infrastruktur	ger
dc.subject.swd	Arbeitsteilung	ger
dc.subject.swd	Stadtentwicklung	ger
dc.type.version	publishedVersion
dcterms.source.identifier	eissn:1743-7962
dcterms.source.issue	Issue 3
dcterms.source.journal	Cold War History	eng
dcterms.source.pageinfo	453-473
dcterms.source.volume	Volume 24
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