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Hot books in the Cold War the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain
Title
Hot books in the Cold War [electronic resource] : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / Alfred A. Reisch.
ISBN
9786155225352
9786155225239
Published
Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 549 pages, 16 pages of plates :) illustrations (some color) ;
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Notes
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Complete.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 History.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2013 Russian and East European Studies.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 13, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes.
Contents
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.
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