Hot books in the Cold War
Subtitle: the CIA-funded secret Western book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain
By: Alfred A. Reisch
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9786155225239
Subjects: Cold War; Publishers and publishing; International Propaganda; Books and reading; Book distribution programs; Propaganda, Anti-communist; Censorship; Political aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Origins, objectives, and launching of the book project under Sam Walker; title: Titles, contents, numbers, targets, and aims of the mailings; title: The man in the grey suit : George C. Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition; title: The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books; title: The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s; title: Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support; title: New opportunities through East-West contacts; title: The early 1970s : the international advisory council; title: A lasting enemy; title: The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks; title: The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959; title: Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings; title: The most important book distribution point : Vienna; title: Letters from Poland, the crucial country; title: Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968; title: Letters from Hungary under goulash communism; title: Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime; title: Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship; title: The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.