Editors' Introduction
SECTION 1 EASTERN APPROACHES
- MYTHS AND THEIR MAKERS
Russel Lemmons
- 'Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed'
- Ernst Thalmann, the Antifascism Myth and Buchenwald Concentration Camp in East German Political Propaganda 1948-58
Balazs Apor
- The Leader Cult in Communist Hungary, 1946-1956
- Propaganda, Institutional Background and Mass Media
Judith Devlin
- Soviet Power and its Images
- Celebrating Stalin's Seventieth Birthday
Jana Fischerova
- Ideological Pressure and Censorship
- Czech Literature, 1948-57
Marietta Stankova
- The Department of Agitation and Propaganda in Bulgaria, 1944-56
Niamh Cullen
- Remembering the 'Martyrs of Antifascism' in Republican Italy
- Piero Gobetti and the Italian Communist Party
SECTION 2 GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS Jennifer Spohrer
- Radio Luxembourg and Cold War Changes in European Attitudes towards International Broadcasting
Vlasis Vlasidis Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s
Nicola Hille Print, Power and Persuasion
- Political Poster Art in the two German States in the first decade of the Cold War
Hans-Jurgen Schroder
- West European Identity in Marshall Plan Propaganda Films
Arnold Bartetsky
- New Cities for New People
- Urban Planning and Mass Media Propaganda in Stalinist Poland and the GDR
Marina Dmitrieva 'Stalin's Skyscrapers' and the Propaganda of the New World Order after World War II
SECTION 3 THE POLITICS OF ENTERTAINMENT
Olaf Mertelsmann
- The Media Audience of a Soviet Republic in the Early Cold War
- The Estonian SSR
Elisabeth Kolleritsch
- Jazz in Austria in the Allied Powers' Cultural Propaganda during the Cold War, 1945-55
Imre-Jozsef Balazs
- The Making of Communist Man
- Minority Media and Literature in Romania, 1948-65
Christoph Hendrik Muller
- Jazz, Rock and Roll and Halbstarke
- American Popular Culture in the West Germany between Weimar Conservatism and Cold War Liberalism
Nils Arne Sorensen
- Kampagnen mod Atomvaben and the Making of the New Left in Denmark, 1956-66
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‘This edited volume is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the role played by propaganda and the mass media during the Cold War … the volume has lots to say, especially about the cultural Cold War in eastern Europe, that is new and that may well be of interest to economic historians.’
Tony Shaw, Economic History Review, January 2015
‘This collection belongs in any good collection of Cold War history. Summing up: Highly Recommended.’
Choice, February 2014
‘There are countless studies of the Cold War. Is there room for another one? Having read this book, the answer is very much affirmative … One of its many attractions is that it is not dominated by American and British writers but by authors from countries that formed the battle lines … Another attraction is that it is sensibly edited … the writing is direct and jargon free.’
John Kirkaldy, Books Ireland, March 2014