Parting the Curtain : Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961,9780312160807

Parting the Curtain : Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War, 1945-1961

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ISBN13: 9780312160807
ISBN10: 0312160801
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-01-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Walter L. Hixson is Professor of History at the University of Akron.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations vii(2)
INTRODUCTION Cultural Infiltration and the Cold War ix
CHAPTER 1 A Campaign of Truth: The Rebirth of Psychological Warfare
1(28)
CHAPTER 2 Reviving the Voice: The Radio Cold War Begins
29(28)
CHAPTER 3 Liberation Denied: The Twilight of Psychological Warfare
57(30)
CHAPTER 4 From Revolution to Evolution: The Thaw in East-West Cultural Relations
87(34)
CHAPTER 5 "People's Capitalism:" USIA, Race Relations, and Cultural Infiltration
121(30)
CHAPTER 6 From the Summit to the Model Kitchen: The Cultural Agreement and the Moscow Fair
151(34)
CHAPTER 7 Six Weeks at Sokolniki: Soviet Responses to the American Exhibition
185(30)
CHAPTER 8 Conclusions: Militarization, Cultural Infiltration, and the Cold War
215(14)
Afterword 229(6)
Notes 235(43)
Index 278

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