Transnational Biographies. Destinies at the Crossroads Before and After the Cold War

[Zeta Books]

ARGUMENT
Dalia BÁTHORY, Stefan BOSOMITU: Conceptualising Transnationalism
through Life Histories 

I. POLITICAL IDENTITIES – FROM REVOLUTIONARIES TO PARTY PERSONNEL
Arturo ZOFFMANN RODRIGUEZ: From Mexico to Moscow via Madrid: the Borodin Mission and the Origins of Communism in Mexico and Spain, 1919-1920
Sandra NEUGÄRTNER: Anti-Fascist Exile, Political Print Media, and the Variable Tactics of the Communists in Mexico (1939–1946): The Case of Hannes Meyer and Lena Meyer-Bergner
Anna TONELLI: Teresa Noce: an Italian Professional Revolutionary Woman 
Stefan BOSOMITU: The Permanent Suspicion. The Romanian Communist Party and its International Cadres
Cristian VASILE: Mihail Ralea between the Ministry of Arts and the Romanian Communist Cultural Diplomacy 

II. BIOGRAPHIES BEYOND BORDERS
Valeska BOPP-FILIMONOV: ‘A New Era’ is always Dawning. A Linguistic Biography of a Border Crosser and Doppelgänger from Bukovina in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Lucie LAMY: Defining ‘Baltic Germanness’ in Post-Soviet Latvia and Estonia: Ethnic Germans’ Life Stories between East and West 

III. TRANSNATIONALISM REPRESENTED
Enis SULSTAROVA: An Albanian Hemingway: Petro Marko’s Recollections of the Spanish Civil War
Ana THEODORESCU: Theodor Vasilescu – The Dancer Who Took the Romanian Folklore all over the World 
Ana-Cristina IRIAN, Valentin MAIER: Picturing the West – A Slideshow of a Private Production in Communist Romania

BOOK REVIEW

Manuela MARIN: Sean Eady, Four Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic (Berghahn Books, 2021)