The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

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.