Chairman Cotton: Socialist Bulgaria’s cotton trade with African countries during the early Cold War (1946–70)

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
J. Ẑofka
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Abstract This article follows Bulgarian officials engaged in cotton and textile exchange with African states in the early Cold War. These officials founded enterprises for carrying out transactions, collected information on prices at international cotton exchanges and attended meetings of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) to coordinate trade activities in capitalist markets. Exploring how Bulgarian foreign trade organizations positioned themselves on the scene of international trade, this article argues that cotton traders, instead of upholding the supposed bloc bipolarity of the Cold War, followed the logic of the markets they worked in. A focus on trade infrastructures in particular shows that early Cold War East–South trade was not as strictly bilateral as official agreements and statistics suggest and reveals the systematic embeddedness of the socialist traders’ practices in global capitalist structures. In the field of cotton, the globalizing economy of the early Cold War was not cut in half, as globalization studies have implied.
科顿主席:冷战初期社会主义保加利亚与非洲国家的棉花贸易(1946–70)
摘要本文关注冷战初期保加利亚官员与非洲国家进行棉花和纺织品交流的情况。这些官员创办了进行交易的企业,在国际棉花交易所收集价格信息,并参加了经济互助委员会(COMECON)的会议,以协调资本主义市场的贸易活动。本文探讨了保加利亚外贸组织如何在国际贸易舞台上定位自己,认为棉花贸易商没有坚持冷战时期所谓的集团两极性,而是遵循了他们所处市场的逻辑。特别是对贸易基础设施的关注表明,冷战早期的东西方贸易并不像官方协议和统计数据所表明的那样严格是双边的,并揭示了社会主义贸易商的做法在全球资本主义结构中的系统嵌入性。在棉花领域,正如全球化研究所暗示的那样,冷战初期的全球化经济并没有减半。
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3.30
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5.30%
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28
期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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