Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins, objectives, and launching of the book project under Sam Walker
  • Titles, contents, numbers, targets, and aims of the mailings
  • The man in the grey suit : George C. Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition
  • The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books
  • The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s
  • Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support
  • New opportunities through East-West contacts
  • The early 1970s : the international advisory council
  • A lasting enemy
  • The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks
  • The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959
  • Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings
  • The most important book distribution point : Vienna
  • Letters from Poland, the crucial country
  • Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968
  • Letters from Hungary under goulash communism
  • Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime
  • Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship
  • The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.