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Author Fenemore, Mark, author.

Title Fighting the Cold War in post-blockade, pre-wall Berlin : behind enemy lines / Mark Fenemore
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages)
Series Routledge studies in modern European history
Routledge studies in modern European history.
Contents Brinkmanship and intransigence at the frontier -- Enclaves and exclaves -- S-Bahn incidents -- The paramilitary response to threatened invasions -- Policing demonstrations and protests near the border -- Illicit smuggling -- Wanderers between two worlds -- The murky world of espionage -- The art of kidnapping -- Impact of the Berlin Wall
Summary "As fought in 1950s Berlin, the Cold War was a many-headed monster. Winning stomachs with enticing consumption was as important as winning hearts and minds with persuasive propaganda. Demonstrators not only fought the police in the streets; they were swayed one way or another by cultural competition. Western espionage agencies waged brazen but surreptitious covert warfare, while the Stasi fought back with a campaign of targeted kidnapping. This book takes seriously a complex borderscape, which narrowed but did not stem the flow of people, ideas and goods over an open boundary. Assessing the licit and the illicit, the book stresses the messy and entwined nature of this war of a thousand cuts / miniscule salami slices. While brinkmanship was orchestrated by the elites in Moscow and Washington, the effects of such intense psychological pressure were felt by ordinary Berliners, who sought to carry on with their mundane."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Mark Fenemore is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having completed a PhD on East German youth subcultures at University College London, supervised by Professor Mary Fulbrook, he has worked on a series of projects relating to gender, sexuality, mass culture, espionage and policing, with a particular focus on divided, cold-war Berlin
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2019)
Subject Political culture -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century
Cold War -- Social aspects -- Germany
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Political culture
Politics and government
Social aspects
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013350
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001651
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054599
Subject Germany
Germany -- Berlin
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019024743
ISBN 9780429514425
0429514425
9780429510991
0429510993
9780429517853
0429517858
0429202377
9780429202377
Other Titles Behind enemy lines