During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, Washington policymakers aspired to destabilize the Soviet and East European Communist Party regimes by implementing programs of psychological warfare and gradual cultural infiltration. In focusing on American propaganda and cultural infiltration of the Soviet empire in these years, Parting the Curtain emerges as a groundbreaking study of certain aspects of US Cold War diplomacy never before examined.
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'A fascinating and comprehensive study of early Cold War propaganda by one of America's most distinguished historians.' - Journal of Intelligence and National Security
'...a chilling study which merits attention and will appeal to historians and non-specialists alike.' - Slavic and East European Journal
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Walter L. Hixson is Professor of History at the University of Akron.
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Propaganda-the attempt to influence behavior by shaping the attitudes of masses of people-has always played a role in the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trade fair program, intensive jamming, aggressive psychological warfare, widespread listening, foreign information program, psychological warriors, cultural infiltration, strategic psychological operations, feature packets, psychological warfare effort, war militarization, embassy diplomats, overseas program, cultural offensive, cultural agreement, overseas libraries, national security bureaucracy, exile army, six crises, radio propaganda, diary series, kitchen debate, propaganda offensive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Eastern Europe, Iron Curtain, New York, Soviet Union, East German, East European, World War, People's Capitalism, West German, John Foster Dulles, Little Rock, Voice of America, American National Exhibition, Camp David, Campaign of Truth, Open Skies, White House, Central Committee, Korean War, Abbott Washburn, George Allen, Radio Free Europe, Western Europe, African Americans New!
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Propaganda-the attempt to influence behavior by shaping the attitudes of masses of people-has always played a role in the conduct of U.S. foreign relations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trade fair program, intensive jamming, aggressive psychological warfare, widespread listening, foreign information program, psychological warriors, cultural infiltration, strategic psychological operations, feature packets, psychological warfare effort, war militarization, embassy diplomats, overseas program, cultural offensive, cultural agreement, overseas libraries, national security bureaucracy, exile army, six crises, radio propaganda, diary series, kitchen debate, propaganda offensive Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Eastern Europe, Iron Curtain, New York, Soviet Union, East German, East European, World War, People's Capitalism, West German, John Foster Dulles, Little Rock, Voice of America, American National Exhibition, Camp David, Campaign of Truth, Open Skies, White House, Central Committee, Korean War, Abbott Washburn, George Allen, Radio Free Europe, Western Europe, African Americans New!
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- The Cold War (Cambridge Perspectives in History) by Mike Sewell on 5 pages
- Of Walls and Bridges: The United States & Eastern Europe (Twentieth Century Fund Books) by Bennett Kovrig in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Soviet Foreign Policy by Oxford University Press in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Korean War by Dean Acheson on page 16, page 45, and Back Matter
- Strategic Psychological Operations and American Foreign Policy by R M Van De Velde Robert T Holt in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War: The State-Private Network (Studies in Intelligence) by Helen Laville on page 12, page 98, and page 170
- Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956 by Gregory Mitrovich in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961 by Christina Klein in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Truth Is Our Weapon: The Rhetorical Diplomacy of Dwight D. Eisenhower And John Foster Dulles by Chris Tudda in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- U.S. Television News and Cold War Propaganda, 1947-1960 (Cambridge Studies in the History of Mass Communication) by Nancy Bernhard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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