Building the General Relativity and Gravitation Community During the Cold War

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The broader context of international collaborations in the postwar period.- Chapter 3. An unspectacular starting point: the Jubilee conference in Bern.- Chapter 4. The establishment of a stable tradition: The international conferences on General Relativity and Gravitation.- Chapter 5. A new community on paper: The Bulletin on GRG.- Chapter 6. The rapid growth of the community: new opportunities, new threats.- Chapter 7. Crisis and resolution in the organization of the 1968 conference in Tbilisi.- Chapter 8. The establishment of the journal General Relativity and Gravitation.- Chapter 9. Toward the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation.- Chapter 10. Conclusions.