This seminar introduces into the complex reconfigurations of transregional connections and encounters between societies in Eastern Europe and the Global South and how they impacted on the globality of both world regions in the second half of the 20th and early 21st century. It therefore challenges dominant East-West-geographies of the Cold War to highlight other kinds of connections, which have shaped 20th century global history, and which were also profoundly reconfigured when the Cold War ended. We will discuss the comparative and entangled perspectives of post-colonial and post-socialist scholarship. How can we make sense of the impacts of the “collapse” in 1989 on connections and encounters between societies in the Global East and the Global South, how are these remembered and embedded in current narratives, and how can these insights contribute to a better understanding of present ruptures?