TY - JOUR
T1 - Internationalism as Encounter: Grassroots Diplomacy on the San Francisco-to-Moscow March, 1960–61
AU - Scott-Brown, Sophie
N1 - The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support from the Remarque Institute, New York University, and the ‘Global Governance, Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present’ project (run as part of the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities, with the ESRC and AHRC as the UK-based funders). All data in this article is in the public domain, as indicated via information in the references. The author's thanks extend to Olena Petrenko for help with Russian translation and to History's three anonymous readers for their comments.
PY - 2026/1/12
Y1 - 2026/1/12
N2 - This article discusses the ‘Global March for Peace’ of 1960–61 – an initiative that took a group of activists from San Francisco to Moscow, crossing countries on both sides of the Cold War divide. While the general development of this march is well known, this article offers a fresh perspective in several ways. Drawing on a varied range of sources, it pays particular attention to the expectations, experiences and reflections of US activists who had strongly been involved in the march. Moreover, it uses the history of the march to examine different elements of internationalist practice and reappraises the march as an experiment in ‘grassroots diplomacy’, while also revealing the latter's intrinsic tensions.
AB - This article discusses the ‘Global March for Peace’ of 1960–61 – an initiative that took a group of activists from San Francisco to Moscow, crossing countries on both sides of the Cold War divide. While the general development of this march is well known, this article offers a fresh perspective in several ways. Drawing on a varied range of sources, it pays particular attention to the expectations, experiences and reflections of US activists who had strongly been involved in the march. Moreover, it uses the history of the march to examine different elements of internationalist practice and reappraises the march as an experiment in ‘grassroots diplomacy’, while also revealing the latter's intrinsic tensions.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105025796328
U2 - 10.1111/1468-229x.70073
DO - 10.1111/1468-229x.70073
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-2648
VL - 111
SP - 108
EP - 126
JO - History
JF - History
IS - 394
ER -