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

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Main Author: Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013.
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245 1 0 |a Hot books in the Cold War :  |b the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain /  |c Alfred A. Reisch. 
264 1 |a Budapest :  |b Central European University Press,  |c 2013. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes. 
505 0 |a 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. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
590 |a Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
650 0 |a Books and reading  |z Europe, Eastern  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Books and reading  |z Communist countries  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Book distribution programs. 
650 0 |a Publishers and publishing  |x Political aspects. 
650 0 |a Censorship  |z Europe, Eastern  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Censorship  |z Communist countries  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Propaganda, Anti-communist. 
650 0 |a Propaganda, International. 
650 0 |a Cold War. 
655 0 |a Electronic books. 
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