Britain's Cold War
Subtitle: culture, modernity and the Soviet threat
By: Nicholas J. Barnett
Series: Politics & international relations; Politics & international relations (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781788318648; 9781786733733
Subjects: Cold War in art; Cold War in literature; Cold War in mass media; Cold War in popular culture; Cold War; Influence; Popular culture; History; War and society; British History; Cultural History; Politics & International Relations
Description: "The cultural history of the Cold War has been characterised as an explosion of fear and paranoia, based on very little actual intelligence. Both the US and Soviet administrations have since remarked how far off the mark their predictions of the other's strengths and aims were. Yet so much of the cultural output of the period - in television, film, and literature - was concerned with the end of the world. Here, Nicholas Barnett looks at hart and design, opinion polls, the Mass Observation movement, popular fiction and newspapers to show how British people felt about the Soviet Union and the Cold War. In uncovering new primary source material, Barnett shows exactly how this seeped in to the art, literature, music and design of the period."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1 Between West and East: Fellow Travellers and British Culture in the Early Cold War; title: Chapter 2 "No Defence Against the H-bomb": British Society and H-bomb Hysteria in 1954; title: Chapter 3 Engagements with "the Thaw"; title: Chapter 4 British public culture and the Soviet Invasion of Budapest, 1956; title: Chapter 5 "Russia Wins Space Race": Britain and the Launch of Sputnik, October 1957; title: Chapter 6 The Thriller and the Cold War; title: Chapter 7 Accidental Nuclear War and Anti-Nuclear Campaigns; title: Chapter 8 'The Greatest story of our lifetime': The successes and the limitations of Soviet ideology; title: Chapter 9 The normalisation of relations; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index.