| Description |
xxviii, 549 p. : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Note |
Published in 2013 by Central European University Press. |
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Printed in Hungary by Akaprint Kft., Budapest. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 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 Personto-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 Ceauescu Regime -- Letters from Bulgaria Despite Very Strict Censorship -- The Last Seventeen Years: International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
| 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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European 6 : -- Russia & Eastern.
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| Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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| In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
9786155225239 |
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9786155225352 Hardcover |
| Standard No. |
2027/heb32283 hdl |
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