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Author:   Judtih Devlin ,  Christoph Hendrik
Publisher:   University College Dublin Press
Imprint:   University College Dublin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 15.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9781906359379

ISBN 10:   1906359377
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   20 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction; SECTION 1 EASTERN APPROACHES: MYTHS AND THEIR MAKERS; Russel Lemmons: 'Out of your sacrificial death grows our socialist deed': Ernst Thalmann, the Antifascism Myth and Buchenwald Concentration Camp in East German Political Propaganda 1948-58; Balazs Apor: The Leader Cult in Communist Hungary, 1946-1956: Propaganda, Institutional Background and Mass Media; Judith Devlin: Soviet Power and its Images: Celebrating Stalin's Seventieth Birthday; Jana Fischerova: Ideological Pressure and Censorship: Czech Literature, 1948-57; Marietta Stankova: The Department of Agitation and Propaganda in Bulgaria, 1944-56; Niamh Cullen: Remembering the 'Martyrs of Antifascism' in Republican Italy: Piero Gobetti and the Italian Communist Party; SECTION 2 GETTING THE MESSAGE ACROSS Jennifer Spohrer: Radio Luxembourg and Cold War Changes in European Attitudes towards International Broadcasting; Vlasis Vlasidis Greek and Yugoslav Public Radio in the 1940s and 1950s; Nicola Hille Print, Power and Persuasion: Political Poster Art in the two German States in the first decade of the Cold War; Hans-Jurgen Schroder: West European Identity in Marshall Plan Propaganda Films; Arnold Bartetsky: New Cities for New People: Urban Planning and Mass Media Propaganda in Stalinist Poland and the GDR; Marina Dmitrieva 'Stalin's Skyscrapers' and the Propaganda of the New World Order after World War II; SECTION 3 THE POLITICS OF ENTERTAINMENT; Olaf Mertelsmann: The Media Audience of a Soviet Republic in the Early Cold War: The Estonian SSR; Elisabeth Kolleritsch: Jazz in Austria in the Allied Powers' Cultural Propaganda during the Cold War, 1945-55; Imre-Jozsef Balazs: The Making of Communist Man: Minority Media and Literature in Romania, 1948-65; Christoph Hendrik Muller: Jazz, Rock and Roll and Halbstarke: American Popular Culture in the West Germany between Weimar Conservatism and Cold War Liberalism; Nils Arne Sorensen: Kampagnen mod Atomvaben and the Making of the New Left in Denmark, 1956-66; Index.

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This collection belongs in any good collection of Cold War history. Highly recommended. -- Choice Choice

Author Information

Judith Devlin is a lecturer in modern history at University College Dublin. Christoph Hendrik Muller is an editor and correspondent with the German news agency dpa in Berlin and Brussels.

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