Author : Andrew Defty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 1902496337
Co-ordinating Cold War Propaganda
Andrew Defty
Co Ordinating Cold War Propaganda
Co Ordinating Cold War Propaganda Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Co Ordinating Cold War Propaganda book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53
Andrew Defty
Author : Andrew Defty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135760144
Britain, America and Anti-Communist Propaganda 1945-53 by Andrew Defty Pdf
In the Cold War battle for hearts and minds Britain was the first country to formulate a coordinated global response to communist propaganda. In January 1948, the British government launched a new propaganda policy designed to 'oppose the inroads of communism' by taking the offensive against it.' A small section in the Foreign Office, the innocuously titled Information Research Department (IRD), was established to collate information on communist policy, tactics and propaganda, and coordinate the discreet dissemination of counter-propaganda to opinion formers at home and abroad.
Parting the Curtain
Walter L. Hixson
Author : Walter L. Hixson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0312176805
Parting the Curtain by Walter L. Hixson Pdf
During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Washington policymakers aspired to destabilize the Soviet and East European Communist Party regimes by implementing programs of psychological warfare and gradual cultural infiltration. In focusing on American propaganda and cultural infiltration of the Soviet empire in these years, Parting the Curtain emerges as a groundbreaking study of certain aspects of US Cold War diplomacy never before examined.
Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland
Marek Fields
Author : Marek Fields
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004416420
Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland by Marek Fields Pdf
In Defending Democracy in Cold War Finland, Marek Fields offers an account on the various informational and cultural strategies Britain and the United States used during the early Cold War decades in order to increase their influence in Finland.
British Propaganda and Wars of Empire
Christopher Tuck
Author : Christopher Tuck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317171553
British Propaganda and Wars of Empire by Christopher Tuck Pdf
'Influence' is a slippery concept, yet one of tremendous relevance for those wishing to understand global politics. From debates on the changing sources of power in the international system, through to analyses of its value as an alternative to the active use of force as a policy instrument, influence has become a recurrent theme in discussions of international relations and foreign policy. In order to provide a better understanding of the multifaceted and shifting nature of influence, this volume looks at how the British government employed various forms of pressure and persuasion to achieve its goals across the twentieth century. By focusing on Britain - a global actor with great power objectives but declining physical means - the collection provides a wide range of case studies to assess how influence was brought to bear on a wide array of non-western cultures and societies. It furthermore allows for an assessment of just how effective - or ineffective - British efforts were at influencing non-Western targets over a hundred years of operations. By shedding important light on the efficacy of British efforts to sustain and advance its interests in the twentieth century, the volume will be of interest not only to historians, but to anyone interested in contemporary problems surrounding the operation of influence as a foreign policy tool.
London Calling
Alban Webb
Author : Alban Webb
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472515025
London Calling by Alban Webb Pdf
From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objectives. For this reason, the World Service was considered the primary means of engaging with attitudes and opinions behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Although funded by government Grant-in-Aid, the Service's editorial independence was enshrined in the BBC's Charter, Licence and Agreement. London Calling explores the delicate balance of power that lay in the relations between Whitehall and the World Service during the Cold War. This book also assesses the nature and impact of the World Service's programmes on listeners living in the Eastern bloc countries. In doing so, it traces the evolution of overseas broadcasting from Britain alongside the political, diplomatic and fiscal challenges that the country faced right up to the Suez crisis and the 1956 Hungarian uprising. These were defining experiences for the United Kingdom's international broadcaster that, as a consequence, helped shape and define the BBC World Service as we know it today. London Calling is an important study for anyone interested in the media and foreign policy histories of Great Britain or the history of the Cold War more generally. Winner of the Longman History Today Book of the Year Award 2015
Cold War Games
Toby C Rider
Author : Toby C Rider
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252098451
Cold War Games by Toby C Rider Pdf
It is the early Cold War. The Soviet Union appears to be in irresistible ascendance, and moves to exploit the Olympic Games as a vehicle for promoting international communism. In response, the United States conceives a subtle, far-reaching psychological warfare campaign to blunt the Soviet advance. Drawing on newly declassified materials and archives, Toby C. Rider chronicles how the US government used the Olympics to promote democracy and its own policy aims during the tense early phase of the Cold War. Rider shows how the government, though constrained by traditions against interference in the Games, eluded detection by cooperating with private groups, including secretly funded émigré organizations bent on liberating their home countries from Soviet control. At the same time, the United States appropriated Olympic host cities to hype the American economic and political system while, behind the scenes, the government attempted clandestine manipulation of the International Olympic Committee. Rider also details the campaigns that sent propaganda materials around the globe as the United States mobilized culture in general, and sports in particular, to fight the communist threat.
Cold War Broadcasting
A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta
Author : A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155211904
Cold War Broadcasting by A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta Pdf
The book examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
Critical Reflections on the Cold War
Martin J. Medhurst,H. W. Brands
Author : Martin J. Medhurst,H. W. Brands
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 1603447059
Critical Reflections on the Cold War by Martin J. Medhurst,H. W. Brands Pdf
Rhetoric and history intersected dramatically during the Cold War, which was, above all else, a war of words. This volume, which combines the work of historians and communication scholars, examines the public discourse in Cold War America from a number of perspectives including how rhetoric shaped history and policies and how rhetorical images invited interpretations of history. The book opens with Norman Graebner's wideranging analysis of the rhetorical background of the Cold War. Frank Costigliola then parses Stalin's speech of February, 1946, an address that many in the West took as a declaration of war by the USSR. The development of NSC68 in 1950, often referred to as America's "blueprint" for fighting the Cold War, is the subject of Robert P. Newman's review. Shawn J. ParryGiles and J. Michael Hogan then focus on American propaganda responses to the perceived Soviet threat. H. W. Brands, Randall B. Woods, and Rachel L. Holloway examine the effects of liberal ideology and rhetoric on domestic and foreign policy decisions. Robert J. McMahon and Robert L. Ivie raise the issue of what it has meant to be the "leader of the Free World" and what the task of postCold War rhetoric will be in this regard. Scholars concerned with the role of words in public life and in the study of history will find challenging material in this interdisciplinary volume. Historians, speech communication scholars, and political scientists with an interest in the Cold War will similarly find grist for further milling.
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures
Greg Barnhisel
Author : Greg Barnhisel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350191730
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures by Greg Barnhisel Pdf
Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently. Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.
Coca-Colonization and the Cold War
Reinhold Wagnleitner
Author : Reinhold Wagnleitner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807866139
Coca-Colonization and the Cold War by Reinhold Wagnleitner Pdf
Reinhold Wagnleitner argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, he shows that 'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States. Wagnleitner traces the intimate relationship between the political and economic reconstruction of a democratic Austria and the parallel process of cultural assimilation. Initially, U.S. cultural programs had been developed to impress Europeans with the achievements of American high culture. However, popular culture was more readily accepted, at least among the young, who were the primary target group of the propaganda campaign. The prevalence of Coca-Cola and rock 'n' roll are just two examples addressed by Wagnleitner. Soon, the cultural hegemony of the United States became visible in nearly all quarters of Austrian life: the press, advertising, comics, literature, education, radio, music, theater, and fashion. Hollywood proved particularly effective in spreading American cultural ideals. For Europeans, says Wagnleitner, the result was a second discovery of America. This book is a translation of the Austrian edition, published in 1991, which won the Ludwig Jedlicka Memorial Prize.
Cold War Broadcasting
A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta
Author : A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789639776807
Cold War Broadcasting by A. Ross Johnson,R. Eugene Parta Pdf
"It was not a matter of propaganda ... black and white ideological broadcasts ... What made [Radio Free Europe] important were its impartiality, independence, and objectivity."---Vaclav Havel "Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty were critically important weapons in the free world's competition with Soviet totalitarianism---and without them the Soviet bloc might even have not disintegrated ... The account in this book of their activities is therefore not only informative, but critical to understanding recent history."---Zbigniew Brzezinski "The studies and translated Soviet bloc documents published in this book demonstrate the enormous impact of Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, and Voice of America during the Cold War. By promoting democratic values and undermining the monopoly of information on which Communist regimes relied, the Radios contributed greatly to the end of the Cold War."---George P. Shultz "I know of no other mass media organization that has done more than RFE/RL to help create the Europe in which we live today---a Europe not divided into two opposing camps."---Elena Bonner Examines the role of Western broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, with a focus on Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. It includes chapters by radio veterans and by scholars who have conducted research on the subject in once-secret Soviet bloc archives and in Western records. It also contains a selection of translated documents from formerly secret Soviet and East European archives, most of them published here for the first time.
The New Russia
Mikhail Gorbachev
Author : Mikhail Gorbachev
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509503919
The New Russia by Mikhail Gorbachev Pdf
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new work, Russia’s elder statesman draws on his wealth of knowledge and experience to reveal the development of Putin’s regime and the intentions behind it. He argues that Putin has significantly diminished the achievements of perestroika and is part of an over-centralized system that presents a precarious future for Russia. Faced with this, Gorbachev advocates a radical reform of politics and a new fostering of pluralism and social democracy. Gorbachev’s insightful analysis moves beyond internal politics to address wider problems in the region, including the Ukraine conflict, as well as the global challenges of poverty and climate change. Above all else, he insists that solutions are to be found by returning to the atmosphere of dialogue and cooperation which was so instrumental in ending the Cold War. This book represents the summation of Gorbachev’s thinking on the course that Russia has taken since 1991 and stands as a testament to one of the greatest and most influential statesmen of the twentieth century.
The Failure of American and British Propaganda in the Arab Middle East, 1945–1957
J. Vaughan
Author : J. Vaughan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230802773
The Failure of American and British Propaganda in the Arab Middle East, 1945–1957 by J. Vaughan Pdf
Using recently declassified sources, this book provides the first detailed analysis of British and American propaganda targeting the countries of the Middle East during the years of increasing international tension and regional instability immediately following the end of the Second World War. Considering British and American propaganda within the framework of the Cold War crusade against Communism and the Soviet Union, and the developing confrontations between Arab nationalism and the West, the book investigates the central questions of Anglo-American partnership and rivalry in the period when primary responsibility for 'policing' the Middle East passed from one to the other.
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency
Nicholas J. Cull
Author : Nicholas J. Cull
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521142830
The Cold War and the United States Information Agency by Nicholas J. Cull Pdf
Published at a time when the U.S. government's public diplomacy is in crisis, this book provides an exhaustive account of how it used to be done. The United States Information Agency was created in 1953 to "tell America's story to the world" and, by engaging with the world through international information, broadcasting, culture and exchange programs, became an essential element of American foreign policy during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified archives and more than 100 interviews with veterans of public diplomacy, from the Truman administration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull relates both the achievements and the endemic flaws of American public diplomacy in this period. Major topics include the process by which the Truman and Eisenhower administrations built a massive overseas propaganda operation; the struggle of the Voice of America radio to base its output on journalistic truth; the challenge of presenting Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Watergate to the world; and the climactic confrontation with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. This study offers remarkable and new insights into the Cold War era.
