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

• Autore: Reisch Alfred A (Alfred Alexander), <1931->
• Pubblicazione: Budapest : , : Central European University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (596 p.)
• Disciplina: 028.70947/0904
• Soggetto topico: Books and reading - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century; Books and reading - Communist countries - History - 20th century; Book distribution programs; Publishers and publishing - Political aspects; Censorship - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century; Censorship - Communist countries - History - 20th century; Propaganda, Anti-communist; Propaganda, International; Cold War
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hot books in the Cold War
• ISBN: 9786155225352; 615-5225-35-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463418503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II