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Being Together, Growing Affluence: Institutions of Integration and the Making of Technological Power in the Comecon

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  • Aleksei A. Popov
  • Elena Kochetkova

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The article examines inter-state attempts to enhance industrial development in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon, or CMEA) between the 1950s and 1980s. It studies how state socialism aimed to build a network of economic and research institutions to transform the bloc into a technological leader during the Cold War. Building upon previously unpublished archival sources, this research focuses on cooperation in chemistry through the framework of scientific and technological cooperation of Comecon. This study argues that socialist countries built a complex institutional system for cooperation and integration, yet whose effects were limited by material shortages and inter-state contradictions.

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  • Aleksei A. Popov & Elena Kochetkova, 2024. "Being Together, Growing Affluence: Institutions of Integration and the Making of Technological Power in the Comecon," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 76(10), pages 1503-1525, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:76:y:2024:i:10:p:1503-1525
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2024.2428389
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