Vincenzo Colaprice. Review of Koivunen, Pia, Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

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Performing Peace and Friendship: The World Youth Festivals and Soviet Cultural Diplomacy

by Pia Koivunen

De Gruyter Oldenbourg
2023. Illustrations. 303 pp.
(cloth), ISBN 978-3-11-075844-3;
Free (open access), ISBN 978-3-11-076116-0

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Reviewed by Vincenzo Colaprice (University of Turin)

Youth Festivals and Soviet Diplomacy

On December 24, 2025, the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY) issued a call to participate in the Twentieth World Festival of Youth and Students (WFYS), scheduled to take place in Caracas (Venezuela) from July 24 to July 31, 2026.[1] The announcement came only days before the widely reported events of January 3, when the US military operation