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Hot Books in the Cold War : The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Central European University Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 emigre 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 intellectuals and professionals in the Soviet Bloc. The author conducted thorough research on the key personalities involved in the book program, especially the two key figures: S.S. Walker, who initiated the idea of a "mailing project," and G.C. Minden, who developed the program into one of the most effective political and psychological tools of the Cold War. The book includes chapters on the vagaries of censorship and on the interception of books by communist authorities based on personal letters and accounts from recipients of Western material. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Publishers and publishing |x Political aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01083496 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Propaganda, International. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01079029 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Propaganda, Anti-communist. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01078986 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Censorship. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00850568 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Books and reading. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00836454 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Book distribution programs. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01893020 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HISTORY |x Modern |y 20th Century. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x Books & Reading. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Guerre froide. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Propagande internationale. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Propagande anticommuniste. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Livres et lecture |z Pays socialistes |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Livres et lecture |z Europe de l'Est |x Histoire |y 20e siecle. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Cold War. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Propaganda, International. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Propaganda, Anti-communist. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Censorship |z Communist countries |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Censorship |z Europe, Eastern |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Publishers and publishing |x Political aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Book distribution programs. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Books and reading |z Communist countries |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Books and reading |z Europe, Eastern |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Eastern Europe. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01245079 | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Communist countries. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01240119 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Project Muse. |e distributor | |
| 830 | 0 | |a Book collections on Project MUSE. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |z Texto completo |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/23060/ |
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 History | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Russian and East European Studies | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Complete | ||