Building the general relativity and gravitation community during the Cold War / Roberto Lalli.

1. Introduction
2. The renaissance of general relativity : a new perspective
2.1 Review of the historiographical debate
2.2 Re-assessing the low-water-mark period
2.3 Exploiting the untapped potential of general relativity
3. (Re-)establishing international cooperation after World War II
4. The formative phase of the GRG community
4.1 The Jubilee Conference in Bern
4.2 Starting a stable tradition : the international conferences on GRG
4.3 A new community on paper : the Bulletin on General Relativity and Gravitation
4.4 The rapid growth of the community : new opportunities, new threats
5. From crisis to a new institutional body
5.1 From cold-war negotiations to real-war tensions : crisis and resolution in the organization of the 1968 conference in Tbilisi
5.2 The establishment of a new scientific periodical : General Relativity and Gravitation
5.3 Toward the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
6. Conclusion
Appendix A : Research centers on fields related to general relativity around the mid-1950s
Appendix B.