The Cold War

America Enters the Cold War provides a succinct and insightful analysis of the foreign policy decisions which shaped America’s early involvement in the Cold War...

America Enters the Cold War provides a succinct and insightful analysis of the foreign policy decisions which shaped America’s early involvement in the Cold War...

This book looks at contributions to Cold War cinema from a wide range of countries and genres, and articulates how all participants in the Cold War utilised the film industry as a tool for propaganda, and how the Cold War itself shaped both the creative and the critical output of the period. It was ..

The film industry was an important propaganda element during the Cold War. Throughout the conflict, cinema was reflected the societies, the ideologies, and the political climates in which the films were made. The cinema was a place of confrontation and rivalry, yet there were aesthetic, technical, n..

In 1983, then-US Vice President George H.W. Bush had just been in West Berlin and spoke in London about his first visit to the Berlin Wall. He went on to describe another German wall he saw after Berlin: "if anything, that wall was an even greater obscenity than its eponym to the north." _x000D_ The..

Lying on the political fault line between East and West for the past seventy five years, the significance of Hungary in geopolitical terms has far outweighed the modest size of its population. This book charts the main events of these tumultuous decades including the 1956 Uprising, the end of Hungar..

This volume provides the first history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the height of the Cold War. It aims to show the importance of informal diplomacy and private transnational elite networks in a fast changing world of Cold War, decolonizati..

In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anticommunist sentiment in the context of 1940s and ’50s America, exploring the historical factors that allowed for McCarthyism and its long-term effects on US politics and culture...

In this succinct text, Jonathan Michaels examines the rise of anticommunist sentiment in the context of 1940s and ’50s America, exploring the historical factors that allowed for McCarthyism and its long-term effects on US politics and culture...

Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949 covers the formative years of the momentous struggle which developed between two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States. The fourth edition is revised, updated and expanded to include new material on topics such as the culture wars and Stalin’s view of ..

During the Cold War, radio broadcasting was important in the ideological confrontation between East and West. This book investigates the institutional history of the radio broadcasting corporations in the East and West, and their relationship with other propaganda agencies of the time. It was first ..

During the Cold War, radio broadcasting played an important role in the ideological confrontation between East and West. This book investigates both the institutional history of the radio broadcasting corporations in the East and West, and their relationship with other propaganda agencies of the tim..