Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain /

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This book tells the story of the secret book distribution program financed by the CIA to Eastern Europe during the Cold War. The book program, at its height between 1957 and 1970, was one of the least known but most effective methods of penetrating the Iron Curtain, and reached thousands of intellec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-2013 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2013
Temas:
1900-1999
Books and reading > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Books and reading > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Book distribution programs.
Publishers and publishing > Political aspects.
Censorship > Europe, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Censorship > Communist countries > History > 20th century.
Propaganda, Anti-communist.
Propaganda, International.
Cold War.
Livres et lecture > Europe de l'Est > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Livres et lecture > Pays socialistes > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Propagande anticommuniste.
Propagande internationale.
Guerre froide.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Books and reading.
Censorship.
Communist countries.
Eastern Europe.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins, objectives, and launching of the book project under Sam Walker
  • Titles, contents, numbers, targets, and aims of the mailings
  • The man in the grey suit : George C. Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition
  • The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books
  • The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s
  • Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support
  • New opportunities through East-West contacts
  • The early 1970s : the international advisory council
  • A lasting enemy
  • The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks
  • The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959
  • Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings
  • The most important book distribution point : Vienna
  • Letters from Poland, the crucial country
  • Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968
  • Letters from Hungary under goulash communism
  • Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime
  • Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship
  • The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR
  • The impact of the book distribution project and its contribution to the ideological victory of the West.

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