03768nam 2200733 450 991046341850332120200520144314.09786155225352615-5225-35-4(CKB)3170000000060945(EBL)3137352(SSID)ssj0001036502(PQKBManifestationID)11593047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036502(PQKBWorkID)11042149(PQKB)11643352(MiAaPQ)EBC3137352(OCoLC)848918403(MdBmJHUP)muse24923(Au-PeEL)EBL3137352(CaPaEBR)ebr10776445(OCoLC)922997921(EXLCZ)99317000000006094520121207d2013 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrHot books in the Cold War the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain /Alfred A. ReischBudapest :Central European University Press,2013.1 online resource (596 p.)Description based upon print version of record.615-5225-23-0 Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes.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.Books and readingEurope, EasternHistory20th centuryBooks and readingCommunist countriesHistory20th centuryBook distribution programsPublishers and publishingPolitical aspectsCensorshipEurope, EasternHistory20th centuryCensorshipCommunist countriesHistory20th centuryPropaganda, Anti-communistPropaganda, InternationalCold WarElectronic books.Books and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistoryBook distribution programs.Publishers and publishingPolitical aspects.CensorshipHistoryCensorshipHistoryPropaganda, Anti-communist.Propaganda, International.Cold War.028.70947/0904Reisch Alfred A(Alfred Alexander),1931-928782MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463418503321Hot books in the Cold War2087352UNINA