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1 online resource (596 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 527-535) and indexes. |
| 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 emigre 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Books and reading -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Books and reading -- Communist countries -- History -- 20th century.
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Book distribution programs.
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Publishers and publishing -- Political aspects.
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Censorship -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Censorship -- Communist countries -- History -- 20th century.
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Propaganda, Anti-communist.
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Propaganda, International.
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Cold War.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reisch, Alfred A. Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain. Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013 xxviii, 549 pages, 16 pages of plates ; 24 cm 9786155225239 (DLC) 2012048142 |
| ISBN |
9786155225239 |
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9786155225352 (electronic bk.) |
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