Across the Blocs: Exploring Comparative Cold War Cultural and Social History

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Pub. Date: 2004-02-19
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history.

Table of Contents

East is East and West is West?: Towards a comparative sociocultural history of the Cold War
The Man Who Invented Truth: The tenure of Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States Information Agency during the Kennedy years
Soviet Cinema in the Early Cold War
Future Perfect?: Communist science fiction in the Cold War
The Education of Dissent: Radio free Europe and Hungarian society, 1951-56
The Debate over Nuclear Refuge
Some Writers Are More Equal Than Others: George Orwell, the state and Cold War propaganda
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