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Title

War of words : culture and the mass media in the making of the Cold War in Europe / edited by Judith Devlin and Christoph Hendrik Müller.

Publication

Dublin : University College Dublin Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Devlin, Judith, 1952-
• Müller, Christoph Hendrik, 1970-

Description

xiv, 226 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"War of Words is a volume of essays on the role of propaganda, mass media and culture in the development of the Cold War in Europe. Exploring a dimension of the political and diplomatic rivalry of interest to historians principally in the last decade, these essays explore the cultural dimensions of the early Cold War. The powers felt it necessary to explain and justify to Europeans the division of the continent into two hostile blocs and to mobilise them behind these reinvented European identities, by drawing on elements of national tradition while at the same time invoking modernity. The mass media and popular culture (whose penetration into parts of Eastern and South Eastern Europe was still relatively recent) were harnessed to the demands of propaganda. Even the built environment was mobilised to this end. The antithetical character of the two blocs was not in all respects as absolute as it seemed at the time. Similar cultural and social trends influenced the politics of culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This book examines some of these similarities and parallels as well as the intentions and articulation of official policy."--Publisher's Web site.

Subject

• Mass media and propaganda > Europe > History > 20th century
• Cold War in mass media
• Cold War in popular culture
• Massenmedien
• Ost-West-Konflikt
• Berichterstattung
• Europa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

"Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed" : Ernst Thälmann, the Antifascism Myth and Buchenwald Concentration Camp in East German Political Propaganda, 1948-58 / Russel Lemmons -- The Leader Cult in Communist Hungary, 1945-56 : Propaganda, Institutional Background and Mass Media / Balázs Apor -- Soviet Power and its Images : Celebrating Stalin's Seventieth Birthday / Judith Devlin -- Ideological Pressure and Censorship : Czech Literature, 1948-57 / Jana Fischerova -- The Department of Agitation and Propaganda in Bulgaria, 1944-56 / Marietta Stankova -- Remembering the "Martyrs of Antifascism" in Republican Italy : Piero Gobetti and the Italian Communist Party / Niamh Cullen -- Radio Luxembourg and Cold War Changes in European Attitudes towards International Broadcasting / Jennifer Spohrer -- Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s / Vlasis Vlasidis -- Print, Power and Persuasion : Political Poster Art in the two German States in the first decade of the Cold War / Nicola Hille -- West European Identity in Marshall Plan Propaganda Films / Hans-Jürgen Schröder -- New Cities for New People : Urban Planning and Mass Media Propaganda in Stalinist Poland and the GDR / Arnold Bartetsky -- "Stalin's Skyscrapers" and the Propaganda of the New World Order after World War II / Marina Dmitrieva -- The Media Audience of a Soviet Republic in the Early Cold War : The Estonian SSR / Olaf Mertelsmann -- Jazz in Austria in the Allied Powers' Cultural Propaganda during the Cold War, 1945-55 / Elisabeth Kolleritsch -- Creating the "New Man" : Propaganda and its Alternatives in Hungarian Literature from Romania, 1948-65 / Imre-József Balázs -- Jazz, Rock and Roll and Halbstarke : American Popular Culture in West Germany between Weimar Conservatism and Cold War Liberalism / Christoph Hendrik Müller -- Kampagnen mod Atomvåben and the Making of the New Left in Denmark, 1956-66 / Nils Arne Sørensen.

ISBN

• 9781906359379 (hbk.)
• 1906359377 (hbk.)
• 978906359379 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

528428780

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library