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Hot Books in the Cold War: The CIA-Funded Secret Western Book Distribution Program Behind the Iron Curtain

Alfred A. Reisch 2013
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  • 9786155225352 (ebook)
  • 9786155225239 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European 6: Russia & Eastern
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction by Mark Kramer (page ix)
  • Acknowledgements (page 1)
  • Foreword (page 3)
  • Chapter 1. Origins, Objectives, and Launching of the Book Project Under Sam Walker (page 7)
  • Chapter 2. Titles, Contents, Numbers, Targets, and Aims of the Mailings (page 23)
  • Chapter 3. The Man in the Grey Suit. George C. Minden and his Concept of Cultural and Ideological Competition (page 39)
  • Chapter 4. The New York Book Center. Books, Books, and More Books... (page 55)
  • Chapter 5. The Book Project Reaches New Heights. The Golden Age of the 1960s (page 73)
  • Chapter 6. Western and Émigré Books and Periodicals Published with Covert Support (page 87)
  • Chapter 7. New Opportunities Through East-West Contacts (page 103)
  • Chapter 8. The Early 1970s. The International Advisory Council (page 113)
  • Chapter 9. A Lasting Enemy (page 125)
    • Part I: The Censors 1956 to 1968
    • Part II: The Censors 1969 to 1973 (page 179)
  • Chapter 10. The Communist Regimes on the Defensive: Criticisms, Warnings, and Attacks (page 207)
  • Chapter 11. The Person-to-Person Distribution Program: A Direct Way to Reach East Europeans. The Early Polish Program 1958-1959 (page 233)
  • Chapter 12. Another Vehicle for Reaching the People of Eastern Europe: the Person-to-Person Distribution Program and Personalized Mailings (page 255)
  • Chapter 13. The Most Important Book Distribution Point: Vienna (page 295)
  • Chapter 14. Letters from Poland, the Crucial Country (page 309)
  • Chapter 15. Letters from Czechoslovakia Before and After 1968 (page 347)
  • Chapter 16. Letters from Hungary Under Goulash Communism (page 399)
  • Chapter 17. Letters from Romania Under the Ceauşescu Regime (page 439)
  • Chapter 18. Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship (page 481)
  • Chapter 19. The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR (page 505)
  • Conclusion. The Impact of the Book Distribution Project and its Contribution to the Ideological Victory of the West (page 521)
  • Bibliography (page 527)
  • Subject Index (page 537)
  • Index of Names (page 544)
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