An edition of Hot books in the Cold War (2013)

Hot books in the Cold War

the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain

Hot books in the Cold War
Alfred A. Reisch, Alfred A. Re ...
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An edition of Hot books in the Cold War (2013)

Hot books in the Cold War

the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain

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English
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549

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Hot books in the Cold War: the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain
2013, Central European University Press
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Table of 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 émigré 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
028.70947/0904
Library of Congress
Z1003.5.E92 R45 2013, Z1003.5.E92R45 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 549 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
549

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27152215M
ISBN 10
6155225230
ISBN 13
9786155225239
LCCN
2012048142
OCLC/WorldCat
840400772, 823014084

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